No

If they haven’t put them in there by now, there is no point.

All that is gonna happen is kids will get stuck in them and they will break or the kids are gonna cut them so they don’t have to wear them

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Posted by Martini

Near Athens

Member since Mar 2005

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Posted on 8/24/23 at 11:23 pm to keakar

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because you arent looking at all the issues, in an accident you need seat belts, any emergency other than an accident and you have kids strapped in unable to get out. if a bus runs into a river or catches on fire. in those cases, seat belts not letting them escape is what would be what kills those kids

Busses are far more likely to get into an accident with another vehicle than burst into flames or drive off a bridge into water.

An old friend of mine lost her 12 year old daughter in a terrible bus crash in Kentucky in 1988 when a drunk driver driving the wrong way hit them head on. The bus caught fire and over 30 people lost their lives.

That accident changed many bus standards and federal regulations. Busses now are diesel not gas, have flame retardant seats and have many more exits in addition to other items including structural. One thing the victims families fought for was seat belts. They were denied. They felt before the bus caught fire there would have been enough time to unbuckle. The problem was not enough exits, no roof exits or window exits and highly flammable uncovered gas fuel tank and flammable interior all of which have been changed.

In my opinion they made a bad call not requiring seat belts when all the other new regulations were made mandatory.

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