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Typical liberal response "throw money at it"

I guess in addition to the 570 million it would cost we should hire a additional employee for each bus to make sure the seat belt is worn?

I'll repost this in this thread:

They have designed school busses in a way that compartmentalizes the kids so if they are thrown it’s about into the back of the seat in front of them.

If they did have seat belts the driver wouldn't be able to ensure all the kids wore them and the kids would cut them out or choke each other with them.

On average 10 kids are killed each in school bus accidents and most of these are collisions where "seating position was in the direct line of impact" (side impacts) where a seat belt wouldn't have provided much help.

To put that into perspective 40 to 50 thousand people are killed in auto accidents per year and several times more kids are killed walking to school and boarding/exiting a school bus every year than are killed on a school bus.

It is possible having a seat belt would have helped the kids that went over the overpass but we can’t afford to equip every school bus in the country for such a remote possibility. It would cost $470 million dollars to put seat belts in school busses (1,500 per bus * 384,000,000 school busses) and that would ensure the kids wore them and didn’t cut them out. We would have to hire an extra employee for that AND what are you going to do when the buss runs off into water or catches of fire and the kids are buckled in?

http://www.googobits.com/articles/p0-362-why-dont-schoo...have-seat-belts.html
This is why I hate polls...because they represent too narrow of a view. How about having a 'no, for other reasons' choice, and vice versa for that matter?

Back on subject, it sounds like the choice of having seatbelts has been weighed and measured. In the age of lawsuits, this probably shouldn't surprise any of us.
in an accident such as yesterdays i think seat belts might possibly have caused much more spinal and neck injuries,and possibly more deaths.
A bus falling that distance is not your everyday type accident. Does anyone know of any testing results for this? I searched and could not find any. I found plenty of info for ground level direct impact.
I think they are trying to save lives by not having them, jbkeddie. The research led them to believe that seat belts endanger lives. As I understand it, they found that if school buses had seat belts, deaths of children on them would increase.

This is a horrible tradgedy and it's natural to want to blame someone or just do something to prevent it from ever happening again, but the truth may be that there is nothing we can do. Trust me, I know from recent experience how difficult that is to swallow.
if i were the parent of a young child I really do not think i would want to know they were strapped in a car seat on a school bus.
Older children could do much better in getting themselves out,but the younger ones would be at mercys sake if there were a crash and the bus caught fire,,,and that is a more likely scenerio than the odds of an accident like yesterdays happening again.

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