Sunday, February 11, 2007
Seatbelts In School Buses
Wink: Today's blog doesn't deserve a wink, there is no humour here.
I see in one area of our province they are going to install seat belts in school buses in some of the seats. About 10% of the children will be fastened in.
Say what? First of all, who rates the seat with the belts? No discrimination chances here. We are talking safety, and having spent quite a few years around buses, I wonder whose fantastic idea this was.
There are many arguments why seat belts are not a good idea in buses. There are less as to why they would be a good idea. But to fasten in a few young passengers is asking for the worst should an accident ever happen.
For example in a roll over situation, the passengers that are not belted in are going to fall on top of the ones that are. The belted ones will be limited in their movements for self protection. Students usually have books, lunch buckets, and other things with them. These are other flying objects added to the pile. Some of the seat belted passengers will be on the bottom of this mess. Others will be suspended on the up side of the bus, which is a long way up for an adult let alone a child.
So who is going to help them unfasten the belts. Whether they do it themselves or someone else does it, they are going to fall over seven feet, landing on top of the others or the edge of protruding seats.
This list could go on for quite a few screens. I think some are reading safety information with their eyes shut. Bad enough that there are pros and cons for installing seat belts in schools buses.
But for the sake of the children, either leave seatbelts out or put them on all the seats.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
I see in one area of our province they are going to install seat belts in school buses in some of the seats. About 10% of the children will be fastened in.
Say what? First of all, who rates the seat with the belts? No discrimination chances here. We are talking safety, and having spent quite a few years around buses, I wonder whose fantastic idea this was.
There are many arguments why seat belts are not a good idea in buses. There are less as to why they would be a good idea. But to fasten in a few young passengers is asking for the worst should an accident ever happen.
For example in a roll over situation, the passengers that are not belted in are going to fall on top of the ones that are. The belted ones will be limited in their movements for self protection. Students usually have books, lunch buckets, and other things with them. These are other flying objects added to the pile. Some of the seat belted passengers will be on the bottom of this mess. Others will be suspended on the up side of the bus, which is a long way up for an adult let alone a child.
So who is going to help them unfasten the belts. Whether they do it themselves or someone else does it, they are going to fall over seven feet, landing on top of the others or the edge of protruding seats.
This list could go on for quite a few screens. I think some are reading safety information with their eyes shut. Bad enough that there are pros and cons for installing seat belts in schools buses.
But for the sake of the children, either leave seatbelts out or put them on all the seats.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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