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Following a deadly crash involving a Hays school district bus in 2024, the Texas House approved a bill tightening seat belt rules for school buses.
A state task force formed following a fatal Clark County crash last year issued 17 recommendations to improve school bus safety in Ohio; mandating seat belts was not one of them.
While you might expect school buses to have similar safety features to cars, but most don't even have seatbelts. Why not, and is it a good idea to add them?
My name is Grace Davis and I am a seventh-grade middle schooler at Eisenhower Middle School in the Everett School District. I am writing today because I think that we should have seat belts on ...
Seat belts had been made mandatory for passengers on express and tourist buses from July 1. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A March 22 crash that left a child dead revealed seven years after a state law aiming to outfit buses with seat belts, many don't have restraints.
As a former preschool special education supervisor in an urban school district, I have two observations regarding school-bus seat belts (”Lifesaving or safety hazard?” Sept. 17): Seat belts ...
Federal officials have long urged states to implement seat belt requirements on school buses, but only nine states have done so.
This tragic crash has resurrected debate on social media about school bus safety, specifically whether those buses should be required to have seat belts.