WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren with the new push and why some school boards are so against it.
Many school administrators say school buses are different than regular cars and SUVs and that seat belts are not as effective. But one former Maryland politician says if we have to buckle up every day in our cars, we should have to do so for our kids in school buses.
A parent’s nightmare–their child’s school bus rolls over–like a crash in Baltimore County two years ago, where children had to escape from the roof.
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11 comments:
I think this is a good idea , now that most of the buses are privately owned the expense of installing them should be paid for by the owners , not the public. Of course the bus owners will have a fit , but their insurance should go way down and reflect on this expense .
Who is going to buckle all if the younger kids into their seats? Particularly the younger children who do not have the ability yet. Not saying it isn't a worthy idea, safety is key.
If they are old enough to ride the bus, they are old enough to use a seatbelt. Technology exists to tell if each seat belt is in use or not. What I hate is that in a private vehicle there are car seat and booster seat rules but nothing for school buses.
Who will be in charge of fastening the Pre Ks in?
Will there be "cars seats" for the wee ones fitted with seat belts for each size child?
Who will make sure the 40-60 students are buckled in correctly and stay buckled in during the entire transport?
How much time will be added to the school day to buckle each child in at each bus stop?
In case of an accident who will be in charge of unbuckling the little ones and seeing them safely off the bus?
How will seat belts be changed during the school year to accommodate growing kids or new kids moving into the neighborhood?
A Kindergarten child's seat belt would be different than a middle or high school child. How would it be determined how many seat belt of each sizes would be installed,so that each child could be safely strapped in? Sounds good to say buses need seat belts but there are many obstacles to over come to make it a feasible reality..
A school aide, and if they don't sit down and buckle up the bus goes Nowhere.
Long overdue.
Waste of money. Kids won't use them/
School bus crashes with serious passenger injuries are rare, and deaths even rarer. It's a shame about the one child that died in a school bus accident; but it is statistically so unlikely to happen, that it doesn't justify the $117 million expense.
Not to mention the inevitable accidental deaths from improper seatbelt use, such as asphyxiation, especially among "special needs" children. It would likely result in more injuries, crash related or not.
Bet you change your tune if it was your child ?
Start looking into which legislator has a friend or family member who is (or wants to be, badly)in the bus seat belt business.
To save time, start with the people who are advocating for the installation of bus seat belts.
Also look for the behind the scenes insurance bribes. They LOVE it when the government forces citizens to do things that will lower their payouts (and, of course, INCREASE their already obscene profit line) and NOT cost THEM a dime of investment (other than bribes, which, if successful, are worth it exponentially).
9:05 and 8:27 have it down pretty good.
But bribery, combined with that powerful sense of "we know what's best for you whether you like it or not, and we don't care about THAT at ALL", is almost unstoppable.
Rope, however, with their slimy selves dangling at the end of it, is one of the more powerful antidotes.
Cheering is not.
More buses need if so. No more three kids in a two seater. Hell yes I agree with this. It's law to buckle up. Make no exceptions,especially with kids saftey. Screw the private owners. They need to spend money. Getting rich per kid on bus while risking the safety of our children. It's cheap and lucrative for 60 kids on a bus that fits 50. Thats free pay for ten kids.
how about giving school bus drivers some training for driving?
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