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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad they're so safe getting in and out of the death trap with no seat belts.[/quote]

School busses without seat belts are 40x safer than your private car with seat belts.

It's safer to design the bus for passengers not to need belts than to have a driver stopping and starting as kids get themselves unbuckled and need to be put back in place.

[quote]If cars have seat belts, why aren't they generally required in school buses? Because [b]modern school buses are already remarkably safe, and because seat belts don't work the same way in buses as they do cars[/b], research shows.

Numerous federal and academic studies have concluded that school buses are the safest form of ground transportation of all, in fact. [b]The National Safety Council says they're about 40 times safer than the family car.

[/b]About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [b]About 800 children, by contrast, die every year walking, biking or being driven to school in cars or other passenger vehicles, said Ron Medford, the agency's deputy director.
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That's because designers of modern school buses don't trust squirmy children to use seat belts properly. Instead, they use a passive system called compartmentalization. Bus seats aren't packed so closely together just to maximize capacity (although that's one reason); they're spaced tightly and covered with 4-inch-thick foam to form a protective bubble.

In a crash, "the child will go against the seat, and that will absorb most of the impact," said John Hamilton, transportation director for the Jackson County, Fla., school board. "Plus, it's a safety device so that they won't be projecting through the air."

https://www.today.com/parents/why-your-childs-school-bus-has-no-seat-belts-2D80555438
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