What Makes School Buses So Safe
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"Every morning, millions of students climb into school buses without a second thought.
Parents trust them, schools rely on them, and they blend into the background of daily life.
But what if I told you that school buses arenât just safeâtheyâre the safest vehicles on the road?
"Parents trust them"
Not my mom. She thinks I'll get murdered, the bus will crash, I'll get bullied (maybe), or something else insane will happen
Statistically, a child is 70 times more likely to arrive at school safely on a bus than in a car. Thatâs not an accidentâthatâs engineering. But hereâs the strange part.
Unlike cars, school buses donât have airbags or even seat beltsâand yet, theyâre built to withstand crashes that would destroy smaller vehicles.
I think the best thing I've heard was that a car can be totalled and the passengers can be put at a relatively decent risk, but a school bus is one of the few vehicles that is allowed to obliterate anything in its path
So how is that possible? And, what makes school buses so uniquely safe?
To answer that, we need to look at where it all started."
Where I drive in Colorado, the rule is that if a school bus has seatbelts, they MUST be worn at all times. I drive a 30' Special Education bus that is equipped with belts on every seat, and you can be certain that I'm not pulling away from a stop until I get the assurance of my paraprofessional assistant that all of the students are buckled up. Technically, she's allowed to be up and around while we drive, but she knows how I am about the seatbelts, so she's usually buckled in as well. All that being said, the most important factor for kids surviving a school bus accident is to make sure they're never in one.
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The issue with this video is that it focuses on the safety of students inside of the bus. It fails to mention how insanely dangerous the behaviors of school bus driving makes the roads for everyone else. Perfect example is today on my drive home in dense fog im doing the speed limit on a road people regularly do 70mph. All the sudden boom out of nowhere I come up at full speed to an entire row of cars stopped. The bus then preceded to make 8 more stops before letting cars pass. I was the very last car and basically praying no one came knowing if they did the chances of them seeing me in time and being able to stop were basically 0. Basically if any more cars had come I'd be dead and not posting this comment. One of the most scarry experiences I've ever had because I was literally a sitting duck with nowhere to go if I had tried to get out of the way at all I WOULD of been the one doing something illegal smh.
Intro: 00:00 - 00:41
History: 0:41 - 2:12
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Technical Breakdown: 2:12 - 7:37
International Comparison: 7:37 - 9:58
i live in Canada and we do not have seat belts on our buses
School Bus Controversy: 9:58 - 11:35
Conclusion: 11:35 - 12:42
The fact that many of you americans are not willing to put seatbelts in these buses is insane
More User Perspectives
Interestingly, I have been on some school busses that had seatbelts and some that didn't. I think districts don't usually prioritize them due to them being much safer than cars and to save money. Those that have them are due to 1) the district being able to afford them and 2) as an extra precaution for those who might need them such as younger kids and special ed kids- this is why the "short bus" much more commonly has seatbelts
@SammykytNo if the bus crashes they will go flying. Out the windows or slaming into the roof of the bus. And or crashing into other students.. . How's that' safe.
@stephennorman6787My field trip bus (in third grade on Thursday 2days ago) has seatbeltđ
@illusion9878:34: Yes, Europeans take high speed trains to go to school đ¤Ł.
"Students must navigate busy streets." That's not a downside. Thats's how they LEARN to navigate busy streets on their own. In general European kids are more independent than American kids.
This is interesting! My bus route stops at two train tracks which drives me nuts cause the bridge connecting us to a train network collapsed and a train hasnât ran on those tracks in forever! They are just scenic decayed walking trails
@Jack-lt8hcConsidering how compartmentalization in these buses already take care of the job that seatbelts do, it baffles me how people still want to force kids to wear seatbelts when not only does it annoy them for having to constantly put them on, take them off, and repeat that for years... but it also costs billions of dollars to implement them in all of these buses.
"No cost is too high when it comes to saving lives" oh shut the heck up man. Is a few humans gonna do a billion dollars worth of work? Like putting a huge hole in our economy that will hurt millions of Americans just so a few can stay here with us is an extremely low IQ thing to do.
They should have wifi
@hotclips62I think the Canadian seatbelt law is fairly new, since I recall not having seatbelts in buses as a kid until around 1993/4. Even then, they had no shoulder strap, and I don't remember anyone wearing them.
@atrus3823does he know the amount of bullying that happens in these buses
@Jad_does_stuffYea ok. But if a bus does roll over, the kids are gonna fly around like marbles in a jar. Itd be one thing if it was IMPOSSIBLE for a bus to roll over but thats not the case. stop being cheap and put in seatbelts.
@at99JJ_officialTigersTeamThey are tanks.
@PeetreesaurI've been on school buses that have seatblets,no seatbelts at all and some seats are backwards (those are cool,I begged being in those seats XD)
@cherryblossomsprigatitointeresting how it compares to public buses where passengers can stand and seats may face the centre
@ic236If only the US put in this much effort in making kids safe inside their actual schools
@Cabezon_305As a Canadian student, we do not require to wear seatbelts. There are seat belts in the front 2 seats tho
@Riff_RebelI'm pretty sure the busses being so bulky is the main reason why they're so safe
@Da_BudAt my school the bus driver was drunk or sum cause he crashed into a mailbox and almost hit there grandge
@FirstIieutenant_Jazz1. Drivers are prohibited from using cellphones/ no texting. No distractions. Itâs not a sexy point but you have no idea how much accidents are cost by distracted drivers.
2. Majority of other drivers give grace to School buses .
its because it came from hell its self
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@froztezeus7:54 nope! Not where I live! I live in nb and they don use seatbelts on schoolbusses. Only on the front for people in need or disabilities. Thereâs a type of vehicle called the âkids on the go busâ that includes seatbelts, but the bus is kind of old from the 2000s to the 1990s
@Liam-k3j6pWithout watching the video, my guess would be relative inertia.
@dkumagai30Wdym canada requires schoolbus seat belts? I'm a Canadian, and it's pretty uncommon to find a bus with seatbelts
@RGB195As a professional school bus, I approve of this message
@GuyMan-v6zNo wonder Joker picked school buses to rob a bank
@imonmahbub9515I used to buckle the seatbelt if there were any. If not, didnât care
@ewartsmith7490The United States and Canada are widely considered to have the safest school buses in the world, with specialized, iconic yellow buses that are approximately 80-87 times safer than traveling by passenger car. These systems utilize strict safety regulations, including flashing red lights, stop arms, and high-crush standards.
@itsJames-TPROk yeah thatâs great so when are we gonna crack down on childrenâs access to firearms and the excessive amount of school shootings?
@Gnarpgmapthe way you said it was terrible "is it worth saving the life's of a couple of kids every decades? probably not" and am just, yeah its worth it, every soul is priceless
@AnomymAnonymtheire are no seatbelt in canadien bus
@Christopher-w9j6hFinally something the US got right đ
@Mr-eightfivefourCould it be even safer if the seats were facing rearward?
@StephenScott-h4qWait... why do school buses stop and open its door at railroad crossings?
@MateusAntonioBittencourtIâve seen schooo buses were the first seat has a seatbelt?
6:25 also, some cars pass by still.
Hello no seatbeltsđ
@LivLundberg-uj5xtThe busses in my district (in nys) all have seatbelts and are manufactured that way, but we never use them and used to be told that were actually not allowed to use them. They stay buckled and we just sit on top of them. I think I vaguely remember using them once on a field trip when I was like 9, maybe???
@timetotalk11524couldn't bother writing the script yourself eh? istg these ai generated slop videos are so fucking annoying.
@Woozadoo10:20 two is more than one, and it may happens to your son.
@darjuz96Up higher off the ground.
@Chaz4Why arenât modern car built using same features???đŽ
@Rosh.786I have grew up in a school bus yard. Been and drive them daily since. The real reason for no seat belts is cost. There is no protection from side inpact for students. Any safety ideas take years to be in place on school bus. Requires a pass of law.as for safety build. The visibility is horrible from behind the wheel because of to many pillars, small glass doors in front. But yet window that are way to big. Kids can actually be thrown out.
@busnorthThis is so ai generatedđ
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