How Safe Are Kids on Seat Belt-Less School Buses?
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
- Bryson and his younger brother Rigel were headed to their first day of school when police say a car drifted across the lane and crashed into their school bus. There were no seat belts on the bus. Sadly, one of their classmates died. It’s a tragedy their mom, Brittany Fisher, believes seat belts could have prevented. Seat-belt safety expert Melissa Dobbs invited Inside Edition to a special testing facility to see how violent bus crashes can get when kids aren’t buckled up safely.
It should be common sense for school/public buses to have proper safe seatbelts.
Well I'm sorry to say it but it's either this or gun control, you can't have both
I can only imagine how many kids will get trapped in a really bad bus accident where there is smoke. The seatbelt will become their death trap. Yeah, definitely seatbelts. Survival of the fittest in the end. 😂🎉
Blame Biden
@@zuz2366???for what???
If money is the problem then maybe the ones that travel in areas where the speed limit is low can be lower priority.
They don't have money to put seat belts on the bus. But the super attendant makes three hundred thousand dollars plus a year.
If you want a good superintendent they need to be paid their worth.
Okay? That wouldn’t even cover the seatbelts for one lot of buses
That’s not how much it would cost to retrofit their buses I’m sure but yeah
Send billions to other countries so we have the money apparently
@@elusivedzyr this is more an issue on the state level
I literally did a school presentation in my English class on seatbelts 2 days ago
👏👍
Well, that's convenient.
speak when you have been around longer then 10 mins
Good for you! How did it go?
@@vvorldnewsmedia wdym??
What kind of question is that kids shouldn't be on a school bus or any kind of vehicle without seatbelts PERIOD
Picture a loaded school bus with elementary kids landing in a lake or large body of water, maybe upside down. Do you really expect those young kids, many of them panicked, to undo all those belts in time?
Would about a fire? Do you think that kids could figure that out? And also some kids might be to small for some seatbelts and the might get hanged by the seatbelt.
@@smorris281yes, they can.
WRONG. The FACTS state otherwise.
@@0w3nn no they can't belts can jam
The weird thing is I didn't have seatbelts when I went to school either. What? Taxes pay for everything except for seatbelts?
Ikr?
I know I never wore seatbelt on school busses either
you think maybe the problem with people spending the money
Same here in the 80's. Your seatbelt is your mom's right hand. Airport shuttle buses don't have seatbelts. Don't think Greyhound buses have seatbelts.
I survived on various school buses without seat belts without any accidents and incidents all around me. Every vehicle needs seat belts to save lives
When I was a 7, we never bothered with seatbelts since we never experienced a car crash. But still, now that I've heard about it, I believe seatbelts should be mandatory on school buses.
When most of us were kids, average car on road was much lighter at around 2500lb, now it's more than 4000lb.
@@ruturaj47Cars and busses were not created to get crushed either 20 + years ago.
But you shouldn't wait UNTIL you have a car crash to buckle up or ensure your child's safety...
Hard to start buckling up after a fatal car crash wouldn't you say?
My middle school bus was in multiple accidents just within 2 years lol that was the early 2000’s
I must’ve gotten really lucky, ‘cause every school bus I’ve been in has had no seatbelts, and no accidents occurred.
the seatbelts don't determine whether or not there is an accident. just the outcome
I walked or cycled every school was within 3 miles
You were probably a lot tougher than today's soft kids too.
Yeah me too but I remember a few times that my high school has busses overfilled with students that kids couldn’t fit 2 to a seat. It has to be 3 to a seat and squished. And one time we had a bus driver in training and he make a mistake in doing a sharp turn which made some of the kids fall to the ground
@@miladsamo I'm just trying to be the very best, like no one ever was.
Still doesn't make sense why school buses don't have them
They don't want to spend the money or have the responsibility of making sure every kid is buckled in, so they claim the seat in front is enough to stop kids from getting hurt, which isn't true.
@@savannahreed3186Why not ALL buses then?
@@helenpauls1496gross politiciäns want that money for nefarious purposes rather than where it actually needs to go.
@@brookelynnwu8016 So true. ALL politicians should have badges on their suits showing who owns them.
Because they simply don’t need them by design.
When i was a child, i always used the seatbelt available in the bus. All the other children on the bus don't care about the seat belt. I just always thought that if it's there, you can use it too
2:20 and the reason they’re saying that is because most states think that money is more important than kid safety. Unbelievable.🤦🏼♂️
a better reason why not is because of fire or sinking and a belt jams or a kid panicks and can't unbuckle
@@Revkor yeah well that’s why the bus driver should teach the kids how to unbuckle their seatbelt
@@razorcool5011bus drivers teach kids how to open the emergency exit and kids still won’t pay attention…
@@RevkorThey can just install a system that unbuckles all seatbelts automatically 💀
I grew up on seatbeltless school buses! We never had problems 😅 in fact it was fun to “jump the hump” referring to when a bus hits a speed bump and we all jump simultaneously to experience weightlessness briefly 😅
Now listen you don't seem like one of those dour face pouty puff parents you need to take this incredibly seriously
(I do take this seriously. But it's a little hypocritical since I didn't require it when I was a kid)
I asked a bus driver once and he told me incase a fire would happen on the bus with little kids they wouldn’t be able to take it off fast enough and there’s only one bus driver
They could maybe make electronically disconnecting seatbelts and give the driver a master button to un clip them all.
Based on their reason, America can't afford it
@@EggyBoi3000 too expensive and most likely fragile
@@Amanus666 yet they can spend 600 billion on the military
Hmmm interesting scenario. I guess a lap seat belt would strike the balance between the 2 unfortunate scenarios?
After I graduated, my school had seat belts added to the busses.
My sister complained that after a few kids got too rowdy, started assigned seats based on stops
She a high schooler was seated next to a primary school kid. (The little girl got too loud and a bit annoying when trying to talk to my sister.)
Without seat belts a highschool student could crush a much younger kid in an accident.
I have never understood why school busses dont have seatbelts.
I reammber that they dont have that at all...
evac issue. if you have to quickly leave the bus a belt would hinder over help
@@RevkorNo, actually that is wrong. Schools can literally just install a system that takes seatbelts off automatically in case of an emergency.
Does such a thing actually exist?
Because if there was a fire then the kids wouldn't have time to get out of the bus due to unlocking the seatbelts. (That's just one reason)
All school buses should have a seatbelt for each child. A child's life is worth the cost and upgrades.
Seatbelts may be complicated to undo in an emergency, especially in a fire or when the bus is filling with water.
Thing is : 90% of the US traffic is composed of Automatic Transmission cars and despite being that easy to drive some random morrons keeps crashing on school buses !
its only worth 11 and a half million dollars to the DOT
I totally agree as I am a school bus driver myself however the problem is if the bus were to catch fire these students have less than 2 minutes to evacuate the bus and that could cause some chaos with all the panic trying to get the seat belts undone
I see the people's points about fires, but I feel like a crash on the road is way more likely to occur than a fire causing students to be unable to unbuckle in panic.
The need to have seatbelts
@@pennsylvaniacoachlines_fanpagebetter than flying out the window and hitting a car going the opposite way
@@Nitestrike-qo2ew not really, having several kids trapped in their seatbelts while the bus is on fire is way worse.
@@Nitestrike-qo2ew wheeeee.....
My bus doesn’t doesn’t have one that’s why I stopped taking the bus
@@pennsylvaniacoachlines_fanpage that's way rarer than crashes
I always wondered about this
If the bus falls over, kids won’t be stuck in their seats
samee
@@FourTwenTyea but what if someone is like 200 pounds falling on a 100 pound person thats a broken rib
@@chianghighshrek survival of the fittest
@@FourTwenT doesn't apply to humans though
There's no belts because it is difficult to free all kids if the bus is on fire, full of smoke, submerged, or if the roof is crushed.
But it's difficult to keep kids from being thrashed around and dying when there is a car accident....
@@TomikaKelly A bus is larger than most vehicles on the road.
@@TomikaKellyif a bus hits a car it will stop more gently than a car.
@@Eliteboss2004That may be true, but if you think about, major bad things could still happen to the bus, and the fact that buses always have more kids than a car mostly during mornings and afternoons, it’s putting even more lives in danger.
@@Roblocksgamingwell even so another good main reason is much more obvious. A lot of students simply don’t wear em
1:15 rip to that kid who died 😔🫡
womp womp💀
@Amanus666 Wth is wrong with you
@@Amanus666bro what is up, who tf rejected u
@@AmarizorCXP_CXKES bro is mad over 2 words and a opinion💀
@@AmarizorCXP_CXKES Jokes on you, i am a minor.
Makes sense! We’ve advanced in every area but still have no seatbelts on buses. Totally inexcusable of those responsible for so many lives each day.
What area?
You clearly don't know the facts about school busses...
nope. imagine if their is a fire aftrer a crash and the belt is jammed.
@@Revkor Imagine being in a car that's on fire and the belt is jammed.
@@cyanalternation4237does your car have 84 kids on it and only 1 adult? No
The problem is with enforcement. When you have one bus driver for 40-60 kids how do you ensure that every kid is buckled up and buckled up properly?
Make an announcement then it's on them
@@roberteverett1476 I’m just saying it won’t make a difference after elementary school. How many kids want to follow the rules. When you were a kid how often did u want to get away with not following the rules when you know u wouldn’t be caught. It just seems like an added expense which would see very little use.
Yeah but Atleast some kids will have it and be saved
@@roberteverett1476You sound like a loving person. Hope you don’t have kids or work in industry related to kids.
@@MarobloRoblox no it will likely kill more kids
I’ve been screaming this for YEARS!!!😢😢😢
Yeah, when I was a kid and had to ride in school busses without seat belts, I was always confused and worried, but thankfully I always had good drivers who never crashed or stopped suddenly or drove fast.
And yet schoolboards will spend thousands on football lockers and gymnasiums yet somehow they're always magically underfunded for text books, teachers pay and safety 😂
I lost 4 classmates on a band trip years ago. It was a charter but most of them got crushed or suffered from chest injuries. All in the back. Miss them. RIP guys
they need to make buses have a roll cage not a seat belt
Many of Australia's public buses have no seatbelts.
25 Years Ago, I saw an article on BTN about a bus that collided into a truck.
Bruh wtf, our school always just said not to wear seatbelts on a schoolbus because it was "safer". Always thought this was true but could never wrap my head around it.
This is just now a concern I’ve been saying this since I was in grade school
No seatbelts + accidents = lawsuit
Public Buses don't even have seat belts
Because they’re designed for you to stand on
@@pennsylvaniacoachlines_fanpage We rarely ever use school buses in the UK,we either use the Normal us drive there or Use a Mini Van[mainly for spedcial needs]
@@france6873but there is the off-chance that you see a yellow double-decker bus on the road
@@SW99836 Never seen one
@@france6873in my uk school we have coaches as a way to transport kids to bus stops for some reason it might have to do with villages
Prayers 🙏
Not only school buses but charter buses ALSO!!
I hope none of those busses with the seatbelts catch on fire, something tells me 20-30 kids all strapped into the seats wont end well if that happens.
Studies have shown bus fires aren’t the most common bus incident, injuries from crashes have happened in larger numbers than bus fires. And even if the bus doesn’t have belts, there have been bus fires that have killed students. A fire suppression system would be a safer option to add than to not have seatbelts. And in the worst case you can design them with an automatic release system that activates shortly after the crash.
I think you could keep a pair of scissors or something with the driver in the first aid kit in case that happens.
Or winds up in a lake or river…upside down.
@smorris281 bc that happens daily just like crashes do
What if the bus doesn't catch on fire but gets into a collision? 🤔
The acceleration is insanely high in those videos, terrifying.
Ive always wondered why school busses had no seat belts. I always feel unsafe in a school bus with no seat belts. I never got used to it, and im graduated now
1:15 rip for the dead classmate ❤🕊🕊🕊
I do remember when I was younger that some school buses had seatbelts on the seats
We also need more laws enforce such as going over the speed limit or running a red light
RIP the little boy ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
And meanwhile our bus sometimes made us do 3 to a seat.
Most times we we ere three per seat.
3 per seat?! Try 4!!!
With one buttcheck hanging off it's almost like doing a squat the whole way. It's exhausting!
fr when my school goes on trips they really try to fit 3 people in 1 tiny ass seat, even 2 per seat is kinda cramped with backpacks included
@@SockTeamStudios_Official4 per seat??? try 5!
In my old schools buses, some seats had seatbelts and others didn’t. We made jokes about who would survive a crash and who wouldn’t.
Amazingly, I used to hang out in the back part of our station wagon on our very very long family trips. And, even the short ones ie visiting relatives on Christmas. Would play with toys or just fall asleep.
Oh times have changed.
(this was the model with no seats. Just flat.)
Im glad my mom picked me up from school when i was in elementary. Since 5th grade (not all of 5th grade, since like February 2020) ive been homeschooled (well I went back to public in 7th, and only momentarily in 8th, but now im staying homeschooled).
as kids for us that was the best part, not having seatbelts on busses vs everywhere else in the only good thing about a bus.
plus even if all busses had them,i severely question the ability to get kids to comply.
bus antics wouldn't be the same with belts.
i remember we went through like 4 or 5 bus drivers in one year because the kids were so bad they all quit.... those kids would have hurt each other BAD with seatbelts...
We have them now but the school don't enforce them to wear them. Me and my assistant got ridiculed for making our students put them on then having parents telling us they don't have to if they don't want to. So sick of the carelessness for schools not taking this seriously.!.
Wow those kids sound petrified with a splash of terrified😮
Damn, in middle school in my school district FUSD (Fremont, California) They upgraded all us the buses and gave us seatbelts, but it wasn't mandatory for our bus to put on the seatbelts because our route had to pick up the most students from 4 different schools-high school, middle school, and 2 different elementary schools for our neighborhood route. We were sitting up to 3-4 highschoolers in a seat. The front of the bus had up to 4-5 elementary students.
Risk of seatbelts on school buses, if in accident or even hard breaking from driver could cause students to choke or get whiplash from its tightness. Involved side impact could also involve whiplash or choking. If to be on its side or upside down, it may be hard to reach or find the seat belt buckle, which is dangerous in critical situations if stuck or upside down.
Risk without seatbelts if in accident or hard breaking could involve slamming forwards into seat ahead or danger of students falling out of seat or whiplash. If it's a side impact the students could be in danger falling or get flung to one end and if sideways or upside down they may fall to one end with risk of serious injury like concussions.
Both ways have pros and cons with certain outcomes in situations depending on the danger. The students and bus driver and others on the road will have a positive or negative impact to either prevent or lessen result.
Id sue the hell out of the district
I heard every excuse when I went to school for why the school buses didn't have seat belts and none of them made sense.
That’s crazy there’s no seatbelts in all school buses, science says your body will be going just as fast as the bus was going even if the school bus comes to a sudden stop. so if the bus was going 30mph your body is gunna still be traveling that fast if your not strapped in
"81 fatal wrecks" Yeah that includes deaths in the OTHER vehicles, and pedestrians hit by the bus. Shoddy reporting at BEST. And they even show that someone has to buckle the kids in. Who's going to UNBUCKLE THEM in a fire??? The FACTS show that for the hundreds of millions of miles school busses travel, the compartmentalization and padding is safe. And seat belts won't make a difference if the bus is hit by a semi...
So the kids should opt to die by collision rather than dying by fire...
“Unbuckle them in a fire?” they can make a system that unbuckles seatbelts automatically.
“Other cars and pedestrians.” there have been more incidents of crashed and hijacked School Buses more than you think.
I always wondered why school buses never had seatbelts as a kid.
You think kids gonna wear a seatbelt if they require it in a school bus 🤣
I always wondered why there were no seatbelts in school busses. It always seemed a little strange to me.
its an evacuation issue. if a bus does get in an accident a fire could happen and belts would hinder an evac
@@Revkor That is what I assumed, though that unfortunately leaves these crashes as a fatal flaw.
@@darkraiking680Ours have seatbelts, but do you think people wear them? Nah they don’t 😐 the bus drivers tell us to, but these brats won’t listen. If the bus has seatbelts, the same result would have happened.
I always question that.
I grew up with buses with and without two-point seat belts. Never understood why they were on there because no one made us use them
There’s no seatbelt on my bus
I had belts when i went to school in rural idaho in the 00’s they were optional and went only around your waist. We mostly crammed them between the seats and didnt use them
Back when I was younger and I took the school bus to school, my school buses never had seat belts on the seats either although it would be really great if the school buses would start having them next for the safety of the children and all.
I remember when school buses use to have lap belts. These didn't work as they caused just as much harm if not more. I remember a kid became disabled from the waste down because a lapbelt broke his spine. This was why school buses didn't have belts.
I remember in elementary school asking about why there weren’t seatbelt and I was told something like “it was safer because if something happened you want to be able to get off the bus as soon as possible and seatbelts can trap you” which as a small child made sense but now naaaaaaah if I have any children I’d want them to have seatbelts it’s insane not to
Why does it have to cost lives for politicians to realise something needs to be changed...
The title is absolutely hilarious... they just asking/wondering this now?!?!
they have school buses with seatbelts, i’m 23 & i remember on long field trips like to the jamestown settlement in elementary school we’d have them in VA. i do think all of them need them though.
School buses should not have seatbelts at all… if there is a fire 🔥 it is going to take way longer for all those 5 year old kids to get out of the bus in time and if the bus is upside down all those kids will be trapped in their seats
Definitely makes the discussion a bit more complicated to navigate. I do see the point of the seatbelt discussion though
What’s the frequency of school buses that catch on fire than accidents caused by driver error?
That same argument applies to cars too. Why have a seatbelt if your car catches fire?
I guess the question is, what's worse flipping and be trapped in the seat upside down, or flipping without the belts and being tossed around like a pinball, and how likely is a fire opposed to a common road collision? Seatbelts have never been absolute, they mitigate general accidents, there's extreme scenarios where seatbelt or no fatality is inevitable, counter arguing with specific situations in mind does not eliminate the advantages of seatbelts altogether.
@@thelordshiro does your car have 84 kids on it and only 1 adult?
Kids be going for a ride.
Was on a school fieldtrip yesterday, it was a hour away, and there was so many bumps, and dangerous sights. One of the students literally hit their head on the top of the bus due to the bumps. It aint safe
In other manufacturers have way to much over head for out fitting there fleet of school busses like that in normal school districts and they just do not have the budget for that up grade on newer busses
I go on a school bus everyday and our bus driver she's drive safely but I swear we just like go back and forth on the bus we need them please
How much time does it take to get all the seatbelts undone in an emergency?
2:51 so much for caring about safety, lol. Middle row no seatbelt 😂
Jesus, that video caught me by surprise, poor babies that was aweful to watch!!
i always wondered this when riding a school bus
Some busses in my school district have seatbelts but it’s not fully required to put them on
Once when I was a kid on the way home in our school bus we had an accident. I never saw or heard what happened, but as we were stopping after hitting a car or almost did, there was so much force everyone was pulled towards the front. I fell into the middle isle, luckily I managed to hold onto the seat legs. A girl in highschool tripped over me then I think fell on her back but it was bad enough an ambulance had to carry her out of the bus on one of those beds. No one else got hurt like that thankfully
as a kid it always botherd me that buses did not have seat belts. there is no excuse
same but i bet have the kids wont even wear them
Totally 💯 agree
I always thought school buses had seatbelts before I entered a school bus
When I was in school during 1997- 2005 between middle and high school had seatbelts. They were the ones that were just around the waist but we never used it. Never had an accident. We also sat like most of the dummies during the crash test.
God bless everyone on here❤🙏
I went to school and never wore my seatbelt on the bus tbh
During my elementary school I was on a school bus without any set belts I was safe there were no a bus accident it depends how many kids survives on a bus accident some of them aren’t lucky they didn’t make it home from school as their parents expected it it’s breaks my heart when kids die on school bus accident 🥺😭💔
Every school bus by law should have seatbelts on EVERY SEAT.
I got into a bus accident back in 2016, it was on the way back from cicis pizza and we were having a great time. All of a sudden we got rearended by someone who may have been drinking. That but had lap belts but it didn’t help that the seats were attached to the walls of the bus. People still got hurt including me straining my back. It was scary and my parents never let me do that fundraiser again 😅
That kid shouldn't gut up and walked around in the bus anyways, lesson learned.
I was wondering about this back in the 90s when I was in school
Oh sure we can add seat belts, but who’s payin…
THE TAXPAYERS OF COURSE 😁
I never really thought of this happening.. It's been quite a while since I rode a bus.. I mean our bus was hit by a motorcyclist one time.. that was pretty much nothing.. just heard a thud and felt a tiny shake.. We were at a rail road crossing and stopped looking up and down the tracks when suddenly thud!
No matter what accidents happened that end up harming and killing people, it's always because of money, man, for the safety of others, people aren't willing to pay for safety measures. It's always money.
the real issue is it can make buses more dangerous in otherways
Having seat belts in a school bus is a catch 22 situation. A bus in flames can be fully engulfed in under 5 minutes. Depending on the cause and reason trying to evacuate a bus while trying to unbuckle students will cause even more fatalities then a crash like this. It was never about money. Don't believe that it's about the cost.
They went flying. But if they had a seatbelt a majority of this kids would have slit throughts (Minor damage) or really bad chest damage
Even when I was a kid in the 90s in elementry echool, I always thought it was weird buses didn't have seatbelts
Depending on the collision it could be better or worse to wear a seat belt.
A bus I was on when I was still in high school almost got flipped over when a substitute driver parked on the edge of a roadside draining ditch, she was suspended for like 5 days and of course living in a house where the matriarch loved to use any excuse to mentally abuse me took advantage of the situation to further torment me, why I remember that incident perfectly
There were a few cases where our buses did seat 3 kids to a seat, so I could see how maybe additional kids crammed on a bus wouldn’t matter whether there were seatbelts or not, but you never can be too safe 🤷♂️
My bus have seat belts but for some reason students don’t use them edit: I think it’s so stupid that they don’t make it a rule because I don’t want kids to die from an accident think how it would impact your friends family everyone in school it would be so sad so it’s so stupid when kids don’t put it on they just wanna be cool not knowing what the consequences could be if god decides it’s not your day
To be cool
because you literally have to everywhere else... on busses it's more or less a choice,even if its a rule....its a bus,how you gonna constantly check?
plus bus antics aren't the same with a belt.
On my bus there’s so many people that you cant
@@Cupcakkecult wow
@@bloodlove93 true
I work on a bus and the worst part is even when we do have seatbelts due to decades of not enforcing wearing them no one cares. Nowadays wearing a seatbelt is considered a punishment for kids who can’t stay seated instead of a safety device.
Also as other point out it’s due to the lack of bus aids who could unbuckle small children in a fire emergency. Busses catch fire very quickly so every second counts.
I remember a time when my girl scout troop was returning to camp, the bus driver was going so fast that when the bus ran over speed bumps everybody bounced up in their seats, twice. We laughed as no one got seriously injured, but looking back on it, we all bounced pretty high because we didn't have belts on. It could've been worse.
Just put the freaking selt belts on the busses needed for decades. It's common sense.