Why are children on public school buses not required to buckle up?

Think about it! If you get caught with any child in your car that is not buckled up (may they be your child or not) you will get a ticket. But children every where, everyday get on school buses and it is not against the law for them to ride without the use of a seatbelt. Someone please tell me why!

Why are children on public school buses not required to buckle up?
Because the school bus manufacturing industry, and the school bus companies didn't pay your local politicians to shoot down the child seat/safety rules for private transportation.





It is totally, completely about money. Totally.





If you have gobs of cash, maybe you could mount a legal challenge to the law arguing the lack of seat belt laws for public transportation violates the equal protection clause of the US Constitution. Good luck.
Reply:Because buses are a lot safer than cars!!!
Reply:Most buses don't have seatbelts.
Reply:In Ireland the law has come in to force that all children in School buses have to have seatbelts.There was some very bad Accidents involving school Buses over a number of years with some Fatalities and a big row developed over this between Parents Government and the Mainly Private Companies who run this service. The Majority of these buses were old many of them 12 to 17 years old and a lot could not be converted for seatbelts economically.This row lasted about 5 years before it all came to a head when Chrildren were Killed in Accidents.


One bus went on Fire another The Back Wheels came off , The Bus Driver was told by the Children that they could hear noises coming from underneath he ignored them and just kept going and eventually the two rear wheels came off. Now the Regulations are getting tightened up no more old Buses,and


the New Seatbelts law is being Enforced.
Reply:i have your solution =)





it has been proven that seatbelts would cause more harm to the body. ( i don't know how )
Reply:In my state (New York) they are required to buckle up.
Reply:because if there was such a law any bus without seat belts couldn't be used and this would cost alot of money to get new buses with seatbelts.
Reply:because the seats currently hold three kids,, if they put in seat belts they have to do two kids in a seat, cheap bastards crunched the numbers for lawsuits and are not going to modify the busses so they are not in a bind
Reply:A very,very good question,there are a few states that have them not many,I hate to say this but it's going to take a bad accident,then and only then will something be done,and no one seen this coming.
Reply:some states require chlidren to buckle up. Other states like Nevada don't wish to spend the funding on seatbelts.
Reply:There are positives and negatives to seatbelt use. In general, for cars and most trucks, the positives far outway the negatives. If this is true in busses, it's certainly less true, and the statistics are just not compelling. Generalizing "because it makes sense" is not a good idea. As H.L.Mencken pointed out, "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong."



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