Why aren't there seatbeats in buses?

Have you ever wondered why buses don't have seat belts? By law they are not required because they are over 10,000 pounds. Also, through numerous experiments and research, they found that passengers simply will not use them.

Experiments with seat belts in school buses have been disastrous. Not only do children refuse to wear them, but they use the seat belt buckle as a lethal weapon.

There are a couple of other reasons:

Twice as many students die each year getting on or off school buses than riding them; seat belts are unlikely to prevent deaths caused by head-on collisions (the cause of most on-the-road bus fatalities); and

Money allocated for seat belts is better spent on training bus drivers and providing better maintenance of the vehicles.

Just thought you'd be interested in a little bit of useless information.

(Source: Imponderables, by David Feldman)