Simon on the Today I Found Out channel on YouTube goes into some of the logic behind no seatbelts on school buses on an episode about why the buses are yellow.
First, the seats are very well padded. Then it would take a lot of extra time for the driver to ensure that the kids were buckled in properly when he should be focusing more on driving safely. Lastly he says that putting belts in the buses would be very expensive and likely wouldn't improve injury and death rates in bus crashes. Even most city buses don't have belts except for the driver. On Jan 28, 2017 10:57, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: There is a bill in the Utah legislature to add seat belts. I have never understood why our most venerable transportation passengers are not belted in. *From:* Ken Hohhof *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 8:43 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT - schoolbus fire in Utah ... … no students on bus, nobody injured … and the answer is seat belts? Maybe DJT needs to send in the Feds, if Utah can’t fix its horrible carnage. </sarcasm> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video/school-bus-catches-fire- in-utah/vi-AAmkRXd
