An elementary student was killed and 23 other students were injured – including one with life-threatening injuries – after their school bus was hit by a minivan and overturned on the first day of school.
The accident occurred on state Route 41 in German Township, Ohio, on Tuesday morning, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said in a news release.
Vehicles are required to have seatbelts… Except school busses. Because F you, kids.
Buses are not required to have seatbelts because they have a far greater mass than a car, making it harder to, you know, fling people out of a window/into the seat in front of them when a crash occurs, which is what seatbelts are designed to prevent. Oh, and you really think a single bus driver can make 20-30 kids keep their seatbelts on during the ride to school? This is mission control, please come back to Earth.
It’s the culture. My kids school in Taiwan has a full bus of kids with their seatbelts on as soon as they get in.
Easily. Just hit a curb kids ain’t that dumb.
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This is strange, I distinctly remember school buses have seatbelts when I was on it. Has things changed this much?
Think for a minute and you might realize why seatbelts won’t work on a school bus.
No, sorry. I’m going to need you to explain it, if the reason is other than money.
Aside from the greater mass making ejection more difficult. If there’s a fire, evacuating 30 or so kids is going to be much harder when you have to get them out of their seatbelts.
You forgot about the fact that buses have bigger windows and the passengers inside them, kids in this case, have smaller mass. Therefore I would argue that the chances of ejection are not less than a typical car.
Plus, pretty sure those old big muscle cars and luxury cars had more mass than a typical family hatchback and guess why we still got seatbelts?