Some of the concerns that drivers express about seat belts are:
Students can and do use the heavy belt buckles as weapons, injuring other riders.
It is next to impossible to make sure that all students keep their belts properly fastened, so that they are not injured by the belts in an accident.
If a bus has to be evacuated in an emergency, such as a fire, panicked or disoriented students might be trapped by their belts.
When drivers balance these concerns against the many safety features already built into the design of school buses, they conclude that given the way buses are presently operated, they are safer without seat belts.
And to be PC....
BS!!!!!!!
heavy belt buckles as weapons, injuring other riders..
1) If we can make cars out of high stress plastic / polymers, there is probably a seat belt out there already.
2) My boy is 13, rides a school bus every day. Three times this year the driver has come to a complete stop, in a 4 lane (4 lane southbound) road, "If you don't sit down and be quiet, YOU...and YOU...and YOU...are getting OFF...THIS bus RIGHT NOW!
The boy says this driver is, "A great big black guy.."
As opposed to other drivers he has had, "Hispanic woman - we can't understand a word she says and she has no idea what we are saying..and all hell breaks loose when she is driving......"
It is next to impossible to make sure that all students keep their belts properly fastened, so that they are not injured by the belts in an accident.
A BOLD face lie.
I own a 2005 Chevy Tahoe. Within 6 seconds of putting the vehicle in F, it lets me know who does not have the seat belt on, a door that did not close all the way.....
What, BlueBird never heard of this technolgy?
If a bus has to be evacuated in an emergency, such as a fire, panicked or disoriented students might be trapped by their belts.
1) The bus gets hit by another vehicle.....the bus hits another vehicle....bodies are going flying....yes?
2) If a bus has to be evacuated in an emergency...
And it seems like the emergency is usually the result of an impact...not a driver going full throttle into a fire storm, not a driver seeing the Horryweird crap of a bridge disappearing, during a Magnitude 95 earthquake........
The absolute dumbest argument of this is....
When drivers balance these concerns against the many safety features already built into the design of school buses, they conclude that given the way buses are presently operated, they are safer without seat belts.
Right! Like these Union Hacks are even qualified to talk about this...........they conclude........
I conclude that for the most part, we hire idiots to drive our children around....
The number of times I call the district about a "hot rod" driver in a "skool bus" is ever increasing.......
let's face the fact....since kids don't vote, they don't count as much as the elderly....so the elderly will get the protection and the kids will die in school bus accidents....
Follow the money!
Kids do not have seat belts in their buses because the NEA doesn’t want them. It would mean less money for their teachers. NEA never has, does not now, and never will give a fig about kids.
It is next to impossible to make sure that all students keep their belts properly fastened, so that they are not injured by the belts in an accident.
The legal ramifications of this one item alone are enough that seat belts will never be in school buses except for the driver. Well maybe not never.