Bus Crash

[Sandman_SBM]

 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010427/wl/tour_bus_crash.html

Okay... can someone explain why there are not seatbelts for the passengers on buses?

[Eagler]

 

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010427/wl/tour_bus_crash.html

Okay... can someone explain why there are not seatbelts for the passengers on buses?

Because it makes sense? Same reason they are not on school buses either.
Shameless waste for what - $50 a seatbelt?

Eagler

[texace]

The way seats in a school bus are laid out, seat belts would be hard. The passengers on the outside near the windows could have them, but what about those in the aisle? You'd have seat belts blocking the aisles and the driver's rear view.

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[This message has been edited by texace (edited 04-27-2001).]

[Sandman_SBM]

 

Originally posted by texace:
The way seats in a school bus are laid out, seat belts would be hard. The passengers on the outside near the windows could have them, but what about those in the aisle? You'd have seat belts blocking the aisles and the driver's rear view.

They somehow manage to restrain all of the passengers on airplanes. Surely, they can do it on a bus.

[Ripsnort]

A Lap Style belt would have to be secured to the floor of the bus.  This would create a tangled mess of straps lying around the floor..once the seat belts were removed, or not worn.  Now, lets say you have a overturned bus, and a fire.  People are either trapped in their seatbelts, or tangle in a web of many seatbelts.

That's just a guess.

[Loyalist]

when I was in school I remember seeing videos of this. A lap seatbelt did more harm than good.  Without a seatbelt your whole body hits the seat in front of you distributing the energy from the impact throughout your body.  With a lap belt you slam your head in the seat in front of you and break your neck.

[john9001]

seat belts in airplanes are not to protect you in a crash (hehe sure)they are to keep you frome bouncing around the cabin in turbulance and hurting other passengers who will sue the airline.

 seat belts in buses? they say you will be traped in the bus , won't i be traped in my car??

someone had the idea of mounting the seats backwards in buses and airplanes so the seat absorbs the impact, but someone else thought people would not like to ride backwards, so it was never done.

last note....if you don't wear your car seat belt , you will be arrested, but buses have no belt......thats why we park in the drive way, and drive on the parkway

[Yoj]

Actually, back in the days of MATS many Air Force passenger planes had seats mounted backwards for exactly that reason.  I flew from England in a C-121 with that configuration.  Of course, the military doesn't have to worry about passenger opinion.

As for seat belts in busses, it would be fine - just add "flight" attendents to get those belts all laid out for the next passenger.  What?  Cost?  We don't care from costs....

- Yoj

[Karnak]

I've seen the same thing Loyalist described.

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[Midnight]

I think the reason busses do not have seatbelts is simple. All types of people ride the bus, from respectable well educated people, to unruley vandilous types.

It is the vandilous types that would ruin the seatbelts and them unusable. It is sad, but the general public always seems to ruin nice things.


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