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Why isn’t it the law for public buses to have seatbelts?

In cars, everyone has to wear seatbelts and even kids on school buses but on public transportation buses and even big yellow school buses for trips, there aren’t seatbelts. Isn’t that dangerous? Especially if passengers stand and if an accident happened. People will go right through the windshield then. So why isn’t it against the law for public buses not to have seatbelts as it is with not wearing seatbelts in cars?

Public Comments

1. Actually, kids on school buses don't have to wear seat belts. Even babies on school buses don't have to be in a car seat. Only special needs kids. It makes no damn sense. Like you're not going to fly out a window going 65 miles an hour because those big seat backs will protect you....riiiight.
2. Seems to me that in most bus/car accidents, the car gets the worst of it. Buses are so massive that they tend to win most confrontations -- maybe that's the reason. But in addition, can you imagine how much of a pain bus-riding would be with seat belts all over the place, and the driver stopping the bus every five minutes, until everyone buckled up? I'd rather walk ten miles.
3. Because of the weight of the bus compared to vehicles it may come in contact with. the bus isn't going to slow down much when it meets your Hundyai head on, but you will come to a very abrupt stop and immediately proceed in reverse. Weight(WT) X Volumn(V) = Mass(M) X Velocity(V) = NO SEAT BELT
4. I had an engineer who built school buses in my taxicab one time, and asked him the same question. He told me that due to the design of the bus, the padding of the seat backs. design of the frame, etc. seat belts are not necessary. In fact, in major wreck, they could become detrimental to effectively getting passengers off the bus.