Saturday, November 24, 2007
seatbelts on schoolbusses?
BRILLIANT!!! Why did every legislator and their mother overlook this harmful double standard? According to a column in the Washington Post, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters has proposed a national initiative to mandate three-point harnesses in school busses. Sure it's going to be expensive, about $1,800 per bus, with <400,000 in the US, but habits need to be learned early. I feel like every one of us can relate to someone who was involved in an automobile accident, how many of those were wearing restraints? I witnessed a middle-aged man being ejected out of his Ford Explorer at 75mph and flying 60ft in the air as his car flipped and rolled. Luckily that man lived, but how many other lives could have been saved if they would have learned the habits of wearing a seatbelt? Starting young is the best course of action, and this initiative is the most logical step at reducing auto fatalities. Thoughts? Objections?
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I couldn’t agree more. My entire life I grew up being told to wear my seatbelt and I always have. However, in middle school I rode the bus for 3 years and always wondered why it was okay to throw that rule right out the window. I have been on a bus that was in an accident and many kids had mild injuries; seatbelts, I’m positive, could have prevented that. I also know a child who had their hand broken because they were hanging out a bus window. Once again, where were the seatbelts? I am just entirely surprised that it took this long for anyone to make this amazing revelation that yes, seatbelts on buses would probably keep children safe.
I have been an adovcate for seatbelts on school buses ever since I can remember. We hear too many stories of children being injured in accidents as a result of not wearing seat belts. If I was a parents right now, I would definitely be all for seatbelts on buses. Children are precious gifts and why risk their lives. Yes, it will cost alot of money to put these 3 point harnesses in place but does that mean at the expense of losing children because we are too lazy to put them on buses. Legislators are doing the right thing when it comes to children. They are thinking what's in the best interest of the child and not focusing on themselves. This is how it should be.
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