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Seat belts have been required in some states for decades at this point. We had them on buses when I was in elementary school 20 years ago, in NJ. Now... gettin

• horsawlarway 5y ago
  In many of the most common situations - they just don't matter that much on a school bus. The bus is generally the largest vehicle on the road, and an impact from a car (or even pickup truck/suv) is unlikely to significantly move the bus. Plus - the sit very high, and impacts tend to drive the other vehicle down - rather than moving the body of the bus. The only situation they really are useful is when the bus rolls, and for buses that aren't driving highway speeds (which is most of them), they almost never roll (the only exception is essentially driver error - where the bus leaves the road on slope)