Why don’t school buses have seatbelts?
Apr 15th, 2008 | By Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. | Category: Blogs, New Jersey Injury Information, Pennsylvania Injury InformationThe Center for Auto Safety reports that although by law children in all states are currently required to use seat belts or child safety seats when they ride in the family car, every school day 23 million youngsters travel back and forth to school without this basic crash protection because large, yellow school buses are not equipped with seat belts.
“This just does not make sense,” said Dr. Arthur Yeager, Vice-President and co founder of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety.
We have to wear them on airplanes, cars, amusement rides and other types of moving objects. Why not school buses? The law makes us use special seats for infants, but when they go to school…forget it!
Does anyone have any idea why this is?
It’s not like school buses never get into accidents. If you watch the news you hear about school bus accidents all the time. What are our legislators thinking?
