Seat belts on school buses?

Just some gee whiz info but 25 million kids ride the bus 180 days a year, 2 ways and that is over 19 million trips a year. They lose a few a year.

Plonking this anonymous fool

I won't follow down the thread where %% loses it completely..

"Students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely when taking a bus instead of traveling by car"

In my case you reach for the handy Kabar clipped to the belt and cut it.

It's Rod Speed in one of his many aliases. Plonk away! ;-)

Only problem is his munged ID is plonkproof -- - -

One way is when the rescue unit comes and help you get out while still alive. I'll take that chance over the ones that get tossed out of the car and get killed.

Like this one

There was one in CT couple of years ago the driver was ejected and somehow got run over by his own pickup.

I put some real numbers up earlier but the Readers Digest version is

*I had a typo in my other note

You don't need a rescue unit with a properly designed seat belt.

In theory you can get tangled if you manage to drive into a river lake or the sea but even then, you'd have to be very unlucky, modern cars float for quite a while before they fill with water.

I'll take that chance over the ones that get tossed out of the

Me too, tho with modern airbags even that's unlikely now.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

You're a cynical wise ass.

But he's not wrong.

Yes, you're right. I think the problem is that traffic accidents cause injuries. If you don't want injuries or death, don't have a traffic accident. It may be hard to unlatch the seatbelt, but if you ram your head against the inside of the windshield and your unconscious, it's hard to get out of the car too. It's not just being thrown out of the car but also hitting the windshield. Even people in the back seat used to do that.

And I've seen hundreds of videos of people being ejected away from the danger.

My friend's a taxi driver, he legally is not required to wear one (in case a passenger behind him grabs the belt and strangles him). So he cut off a clicky thing from a car in the local junk yard and leaves it plugged in to stop the "ding!". My car only has a warning light, so I painted it over with gloss black paint.

I don't take precautions against unlikely things. Safety mechanisms are only needed if death is likely, like having a reserve parachute.

jimmy snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid wrote in news:ofSdnRRiXsU snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

His answer is wrong, and irrelevant. The reason there are not seatbelts on school buses is *not* because the bus driver doesn't want to tell a bunch of kids to buckle up, and it's *not* because the driver is too busy trying to keep the kids from getting high or having sex on the bus.

Ed Pawlowski, and others, had the answer. I appreciated that.

There is more than one reason. Plenty of people will say "if we just save one kid ..."

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:59:24 -0400, Clare Snyder posted for all of us to digest...

I mastered this buffoon after a few posts, for amusement purposes only. I un- plonked him and others to see if they were adding anything useful. This clown doesn't, some have. He is being much more ludicrous than usual.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:35:48 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com posted for all of us to digest...

Yes they are. PSP inspects them before the school year starts from front to back... Fail them for any kind of infraction as small as the seat stitching unraveling. The seat cover MUST be replaced by OEM materials. All systems MUST be first rate, steering, suspension, brakes, lights, doors, emergency exits, etc. I think the side collision braces would stop a gravel truck (guessing no proof)

On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:41:56 -0000 (UTC), MikeJ posted for all of us to digest...

Hey Arlen!