False, If you read the law (in iowa atleast, only front seat passengers must wear a seat belt at all times. Reason being is that back seat passengers don't have a hard plastic dashboard in front of them.
In Michigan, where I live, everyone must wear a seat belt. Once you turn 16 years old, seat belts are optional when you are seated in the back. And the law enforces "Click it or ticket" more than any other law, it seems.
Sounds about right, where I live in Australia, when ever we were travelling from our school to another to compete in sport we were travelling on a 30 year old bus with metal bars on the chairs in front of us, breaks the fall, breaks a few teeth at the same time
That would be a very rare crash as most people are not tossed up around and back down then straight out to get from the back seat and out of the windshield...
Ok listen ..... As a former bus driver. Would you want to be the parent of the child who's seat belt would not unlock in a accident when the bus is on fire? what about the parent of the children who's bus was in a accident and the driver was dead or unconscious, and the seat belts would not unlock? Think people you try to unlock 45-78 seat belts in an emergency and see how far you get?
That is utter shit. I may not be a bus driver, but how many times have you been in a flaming bus full of children, I'm to take a guess of roughly 0 times. In a crash, the seatbelt is the first thing to save the life of you and that of the person in front of you because if you are thrown forwards, your head will collide with the person in front's head and the likelihood is that both people die. This is more likely, and more of a problem than having to take off the seatbelts in the burning bus. Would you like to be the parent of a child who was killed due to being thrown at 40mph into the child in front's head? No, nobody wants to be the parent of anyone in a traffic collision, it's bad any way you look at it.
Because of the size, mass, and length of a bus, the results of a wreck are drastically different than in a car. A seat belt is there for one purpose, to keep you from moving at 40+ mph into a hard object. A bus does not come to a instant stop in a wreck as its mass is generally greater than what it hit. Also the back of the seats are rated for impact similar to airbags.
well if your launched through the windshield, chances are your not gonna live through the crash, or your gonna get messed up from it. As for Michigan you have to wear a seatbelt in the back seat until you turn 16, only then does it become optional to wear one or not
Look were I live , and I am in high school we don't have to gave seat belts only the driver does, because 1- children are idiots and were hurting each other with the seat belts 2- the seats have extra padding on them so when you go flying foward it catches you 3-they used to get stuck all the time , and in an emergency try to do that or an emergency happens with say kindergarteners and they all flip out and can't get their belts undone.
False, If you read the law (in iowa atleast, only front seat passengers must wear a seat belt at all times. Reason being is that back seat passengers don't have a hard plastic dashboard in front of them.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. In the case noted above, they just have metal frames covered in 1/8" vinyl... So much safer... :-|
DeleteIn Michigan, where I live, everyone must wear a seat belt. Once you turn 16 years old, seat belts are optional when you are seated in the back. And the law enforces "Click it or ticket" more than any other law, it seems.
DeleteYou are an absolute idiot.
DeleteActually, I live in MI too, and the law is that only front seat passengers have to wear their seatbelt. It's optional for backseat riders
DeleteSounds about right, where I live in Australia, when ever we were travelling from our school to another to compete in sport we were travelling on a 30 year old bus with metal bars on the chairs in front of us, breaks the fall, breaks a few teeth at the same time
ReplyDeleteYeah, Anonymous in Iowa -- as if they don't have the issue of flying out the windshield, still . . .
ReplyDeleteThat would be a very rare crash as most people are not tossed up around and back down then straight out to get from the back seat and out of the windshield...
DeleteOk listen ..... As a former bus driver. Would you want to be the parent of the child who's seat belt would not unlock in a accident when the bus is on fire?
ReplyDeletewhat about the parent of the children who's bus was in a accident and the driver was dead or unconscious, and the seat belts would not unlock?
Think people you try to unlock 45-78 seat belts in an emergency and see how far you get?
That is utter shit. I may not be a bus driver, but how many times have you been in a flaming bus full of children, I'm to take a guess of roughly 0 times. In a crash, the seatbelt is the first thing to save the life of you and that of the person in front of you because if you are thrown forwards, your head will collide with the person in front's head and the likelihood is that both people die. This is more likely, and more of a problem than having to take off the seatbelts in the burning bus. Would you like to be the parent of a child who was killed due to being thrown at 40mph into the child in front's head? No, nobody wants to be the parent of anyone in a traffic collision, it's bad any way you look at it.
Deleteand how bout this? unless the bus hits a brick wall its not gonna stop like a car,,,, it will keep going ,,
ReplyDeleteWhen i was going to school on Staten island as a kid we had seat belts
ReplyDeleteBecause of the size, mass, and length of a bus, the results of a wreck are drastically different than in a car. A seat belt is there for one purpose, to keep you from moving at 40+ mph into a hard object. A bus does not come to a instant stop in a wreck as its mass is generally greater than what it hit. Also the back of the seats are rated for impact similar to airbags.
ReplyDeletewell if your launched through the windshield, chances are your not gonna live through the crash, or your gonna get messed up from it. As for Michigan you have to wear a seatbelt in the back seat until you turn 16, only then does it become optional to wear one or not
ReplyDeleteTexas everyone has too. $500 tickets for adults, $750 for minonrs, lets not even talk about if a child isn't in a car seat,
ReplyDeleteLook were I live , and I am in high school we don't have to gave seat belts only the driver does, because
ReplyDelete1- children are idiots and were hurting each other with the seat belts
2- the seats have extra padding on them so when you go flying foward it catches you
3-they used to get stuck all the time , and in an emergency try to do that or an emergency happens with say kindergarteners and they all flip out and can't get their belts undone.