I worked for a Congresscritter in 1984. One of his big issues was seatbelts on school buses. Everyone told him it would cost too much, kids wouldn’t wear them, etc.
Regardless, he brought it up whenever he could. It was the 80’s version of virtue signaling. See? He really CARES about kids!
Video like that makes me think he might not have been wrong.
That issues pretty much died in Texas after the soda truck hit a school bus into a flooded chalice pit in the Rio Grande Valley.
Not sure if the safety concerns and technology have changed in the previous 50 years, but let one kid drown due to a jammed seat belt ...
He was wrong. It would have been a nightmare to have 30 kids hanging from seatbelts sideways, etc. And in a bus on fire, kids with seatbelts would take forever to evacuate.
The better war is those high padded seat backs, and loose kids.
It doesn’t resonate with soccer moms, but it’s a well established fact.