A recent crash involving a school bus and one other vehicle recently blocked both lanes of traffic on Highway 57 in Jackson County for a few hours. The Mississippi Highway Patrol reported that there were students on the bus when the accident occurred. Fortunately, there did not appear to be anyone injured.
School bus accidents do not always end as safely as this one did. Last year, there was a school bus rollover accident where students were injured, and some school bus accidents do result in serious injuries and even death. Whenever there is a school bus accident, it is not surprising that parents think about whether they are doing the right thing when they send their kids out to catch the bus to school every weekday morning. Fortunately, school bus accidents are not all that common, and research indicates that they are in fact the safest way for kids to get to and from school. Riding to school in a private vehicle is actually seven times more dangerous than riding to school in a school bus.
If you can think back a few years to when you were in school, and you rode the school bus, you might remember that there were not any seat belts on the buses. You might think that certainly, school buses would have seat belts now, especially with all of the focus on car seats for children up to ages that are well beyond the ages that children were required to use them when you were younger. It might surprise you, then, to learn that in most places, there are still not any seat belts on school buses. This is not an oversight; it is actually a deliberate choice by school bus manufacturers who have studied many different types of school bus design and have decided that the no-seatbelt design is the safest for a few reasons.
School buses are designed to keep passengers safe in a much different way than other types of passenger vehicles like cars and SUVs are. School buses are made with padded, high-backed seats. These seats serve a purpose – they divide the interior of the bus into compartments, which reduces the amount of passenger movement during collisions. The large size of a school bus distributes any impact from a collision across a wide area. These and other design features help to keep kids safe on school buses, and parents can feel good about that.
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