Imagine this, a church bus crashed into a truck the driver and 12 passengers on the bus died not including the truck driver who died also. But that actually happened in Concan, Texas. Why? They were all wearing seat belts, the seat belts just prevented them from evacuating Now that is really sad, this is why I feel there should be no seat belts on a bus. Seat belts on a bus should not be required because of the expense they bring and if there is an emergency it would take longer for the person to evacuate out of the seat belt.
Most buses don’t have seat belts because they are expensive. Therefore, “Requiring seat belts on school buses would be one more thing where dollars need to go” (“Should States Require…”). Most schools have enough money,
Fifteen years ago in Washington D.C., Dawn Prescott was riding on a bus that crashed in Omaha, Nebraska. Prescott was a chaperone for the high school band’s trip to a competition. Her 14 year old son Benjamin was sitting a few rows ahead of her. Benjamin along with two other student and a parent died as a result of the crash. Since the crash, Prescott, a middle school teacher, has been urging Nebraska lawmakers to require seat belts on new school buses.
Now if they had belts, they don’t have to worry about anything when they have belts on buses because they are sitting down not standing up they not sticking their heads out the
“The Fraud of Seat-Belt Laws” by William J. Holdorf is more focused on seat-belt laws than seat belts themselves. Holdorf discusses that the seat-belts laws are more concerned with generating money than actually protecting citizens (1). Holdorf writes, “Once seatbelt laws were passed in any form, supporters returned each legislative session to lobby for amendments, such as including all occupants, increasing fines, eliminating exemptions, and changing to primary enforcement, so that the police could stop a motorist merely under suspicion of not using a seat belt” (1). The argument here against seat belts, specifically the laws pertaining to them, is that police can pull anyone over with the intent to fine them for not wearing their seatbelt. Horford continues that seat belt laws are a “loss of freedom” and that the expenses to implement the law are putting a burden on society and “infringe a person’s rights as guaranteed in the Fourth, Fifth, and the Ninth Amendments” (2). The debt on society is an understandable argument but the idea of infringing on someone’s rights does not make sense, at least relating to this context. It does not make sense for someone to prefer a life of chronic pain from severe injuries or even death of themselves or a family member than simply a few bruises or even get away from a crash perfectly clean. How can someone not want to protect
Megan Schmidt October 14, 2013 Mrs. Johnson AP Language Character Analysis Abigail is one of the main characters of the story. And, by the end of the story, we know she is the one who causes all of this, just because she was in love with John Procter. While she and others are dancing in the woods with Titbua and the other girls, she gets out of control. Abigail drinks a charm to put a spell on Elizabeth Proctor.
According to NHTSA, 13,941 lives were saved by seat belts in 2015 while an additional 2,814 could have been saved if properly restrained (2017). One impact of seat belt usage is reducing the risk serious or fatal injuries by about half. The CDC reported in 2009, 53% of occupants killed in crashes in the U.S. were not wearing seat belts (2014). According to data collected in 2008 by NHTSA, seat belts have saved an estimated 225,000 lives (2009). The benefit of wearing a seat belt can help increase chances of surviving a crash with little or no
All the kids will ride a bus while they’re in school, if it's for a field trip, or to get home, to get to another campus and if you play sports you ride the busses to the away games. Our busses are not superior. In the months of August through November the kids that have to ride the bus home after a long, hard working school day don’t want to be sitting there in a puddle of thiers, and anybody else's sweat waiting for the next stop that brings them closer and closer to their wonderful home, cool home. I wouldn't want to be three to a seat, on that hot bus with everybody's smelly body odor and hot breath. In East Texas our winters are not harsh but the months December through the end of February it's chilly and cold, it’s easier for the little ones to catch a cold. Their noses are going to be running non-stop with no tissues or parent to help wipe the snot off their top lip. If we had good, working busses with air conditioning or a heater we wouldn't have those kinds of problems. Also, we need buses with Seatbelts, Seatbelts should be placed in every single school bus that is transporting children. Firstly, and most importantly, seatbelts would secure the safety of passengers, reduce driver distraction, and reinforce valuable safety habits. Wouldn't you want your child to feel safe, secure, and be protected on his/her daily ride to school on the large, yellow bus? The safety of students is the first priority of all adults, parents, and faculty. If this is the case, then there shouldn't be any buses without seatbelts. There is no doubt about it: seatbelts save lives. Another doubtless fact is that cars, buses, and trucks get into accidents daily, across the nation. Seatbelts save the lives of students riding these buses, with unfortunate consequences, depending on how severe the crash
Seat belts should be required on school buses for a lot of foreseen reasons. Seatbelts can make school buses so much safer in so many different ways. One reason why seat belts should be required on school buses is that it will save students' lives. According to an article released by the “Today” show “About 440,000 school buses carry 24 million kids each and every day during the school year, which can be dangerous if the bus gets in a crash. Undoubtedly, school buses should be required to have seat belts if 24 million kids ride school buses each day.
Judge Oliver ruled that, sincethe belts contributed to public safety, they could not be considered unconstitutional.consequently, People think that wearing a seatbelt or not, it doesn’t change the numberof casualties from wrecks but let me tell you why that’s not true. Despite the best effortsof law enforcement and others to educate people about the importance and benefits ofwearing a seatbelt, many still do not.(Hurst). According to the Center for DiseaseControl wearing a seatbelt is the most efficient way to save lives and reduce injuries incar crashes. Considering car crashes are the leading cause of death among thosebetween the ages of 5 and 34, you could say wearing a seat belt is the most
There are many people who do not understand the importance of seat belts for safety. They do not wear their seat belts even though they know the mortality statistics. Most of them think that seat belts do not help when an accident occurs. We have all made the excuse that the seat belt is uncomfortable. Driving is a dangerous duty that should always be practiced with more caution and care. Some people think that not wearing a seatbelt is rebellious. Other people think that they will never get into accident. Some of the consequences of not wearing a seat belt is that you could die, you can get injured and many more. So far, the only way to avoid these consequences from happening is to wear a seatbelt.
When you see so many incidents lately on the news regarding the students riding the bus, the lack of supervision, and sometimes the harmful acts being done to other students; you wonder why these things are happening. Or perhaps there was an accident involving a bus where a student was severely hurt. I am for seatbelts being on school buses for the simple fact that anything could happen on a bus even an accident and the students should be safe. The issue of seatbelts on a bus is not a huge controversial issue compared to other issues such as whether or not English should be the official language or abortion, but it is an important issue to be discussed and made a decision on.
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death in America, how have seat belts saved lives and lower the deaths in these accidents? The technology in seat belts as well as the laws created to regularize the use of seat belts have increased the chances of survival for people involved in car accidents. However how much can the technology of seat belts do , and how do seat belt laws created by states show an increase in survival rate in these accidents? Thousands of lives are lost every year due to motor vehicle accidents all across the country, seat belts are known to have decreased fatalities by large numbers seen in statistics and studies made around the country.
School buses, for as long as anyone can remember, have had no seat belts and children, for the most part, have been fine and ultimately safe. People may think this is unsafe and it sort of is but if something were to happen and these children could not get out of their seats fast enough a lot of circumstances could go wrong. Children enjoy their first bus ride and they do not want to be bombarded with all of this controversy over whether or not it is safe; they just want to get to school and back home. That is all a school bus is really, a short ride to and from school. Seat belts should not be required for school buses because children most likely would not wear them anyway and that could cause more danger, children should have a say as to whether they wear a seatbelt or not, and seat belts can cause a restricting situation where students could not exit the bus quickly and safely.
For the people who use the excuse that "They are just going around the corner" should realize that 80% of traffic fatalities occur within a 25-mile radius of your home and at a speed of 40 miles an hour. Buckling up to drive around the block is probably the best time to do so. Everyone knows that car crashes can cause death; yet because people do not buckle up all the time thousands of people still die in traffic crashes yearly. Seatbelts can save your life in a crash and can reduce your risk of a serious injury. Seat belts keep drivers and passengers from being ejected through windows or doors. This is important because your chances of being killed are five times greater if you are thrown from the vehicle. Thousands of people who die in car crashes each year might still be alive today if they had only been wearing their seat belts.
According to the CDC, a total of 22,441 passenger vehicle occupants died in motor vehicle traffic crashes and 2.5 million passengers were treated for injuries in 2015 (Motor Vehicle Safety np). More than half of the 22,441 occupants were unrestrained, or not held in place by a seat belt. People that do not wear a seat belt, are 30 times more effective being ejected from the vehicle at the time of the crash and 3 out of 4 people who are ejected during a fatal crash die from their injuries (Motor Vehicle Safety np). Ejection from a vehicle will not stop you from flying across the highway, because inertia and gravity will keep moving your body forward. What is the cause for us not wearing our seat belts? According to the NHTSA, people get in a hurry, distraction, or simply forgetting is the main cause for not wearing our seat
A seat belt is a long strap attached to a car seat, this tool was designed to keep the passenger in place when in a collision. According to, Traffic with a smile, “ Today, the seat belt serves to protect drivers and passengers from injury during any type of collision.” Tnsafety.org says, “More than 50% of vehicle occupants killed in crashes in Tennessee were not wearing seat belts.” There are many people that die everyday, because they had a collision and were not wearing a seatbelt.