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“So it is likely that many students will encounter school buses that do not have seat belts available.” (In 2019, Iowa issued a rule that all new school buses be outfitted with lap-shoulder ...
Only nine states, including Texas, have a law requiring seat belts on school buses. Most laws only mandate restraints on new buses.
Federal officials have long urged states to implement seat belt requirements on school buses, but only nine states have done so.
Transport Canada has stuck to its stance against installing seat belts on school buses, despite numerous newer studies and actual accidents showing that compartmentalization could not protect against side impacts, rollovers, and being rear-ended; which would have been avoided by implementing three-point seat belts that would have kept occupants ...
Most seat belt laws in the United States are left to state law. However, the recommended age for a child to sit in the front passenger seat is 13. The first seat belt law was a federal law, Title 49 of the United States Code, Chapter 301, Motor Safety Standard, which took effect on January 1, 1968, that required all vehicles (except buses) to be fitted with seat belts in all designated seating ...
In the U.S., six states—California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, and Texas—require seat belts on school buses. [118] Pros [119] [120] [121] and cons [122] [123] [124] have been debated about the use of seat belts in school buses. School buses, which are much bigger than the average vehicle, allow for the mass transportation of ...
Eight of the school buses without seat belts are used for bus routes with an estimated 47 to 68 riders. Tuloso-Midway ISD has a fleet of 38 school buses, of which 17 have seat belts.
On July 1, 2016, the Prescott Community School District merged into the Creston district. [4] The election determining whether the districts would consolidate was held Tuesday April 7, 2015. [5] In 2019, the district announced plans to replace buses without seat belts with buses that have seat belts. [6]