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This NTSB PSA video explains it like "eggs in a carton" [0], but those bus seats look like regular benches, zero molding for an actual fit, like an egg would ha

This NTSB PSA video explains it like "eggs in a carton" [0], but those bus seats look like regular benches, zero molding for an actual fit, like an egg would have inside a carton from all sides. I understand that getting a horde of kids to put on seatbelts is a compliance nightmare, but imho it's difficult to argue how that wouldn't make a massive difference in a crash scenario, particularly during roll-over incidents [1] [0] https://youtu.be/ksw67zFnuAE https://youtu.be/ksw67zFnuAE [1] https://youtu.be/l4uHbX0SL_w https://youtu.be/l4uHbX0SL_w (NSFW)

Symbiote 5y ago
How common do you think that is? There seem to be several videos, but perhaps there's a lot of CCTV on school buses. I can't remember ever seeing pictures of a city bus (as opposed to a long distance bus) overturned in an accident in Europe. City bus-type vehicles are used for public bus service and school bus service ("school bus" is a usage, not a type of vehicle) but searching for things like "bus crash England" shows very, very few cases where a bus has overturned, even when it's come off the road and slid down a slope. If [1] is anything to go by, the bus needs to hit a similarly heavy vehicle to overturn. Could the American school bus design be susceptible to climbing up/rolling over a car, then tipping, compared to the typical European low-floor lower-centre-of-gravity bus? (No doubt there are other factors that influence the American school bus design.) [1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/16/bus-toppled-collision-lorry https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/16/bus-toppled-colli...