Comments about ‘Letter: Seat belt safety on school buses cause more problems’

You know, I really learned something from this. When the previous writer suggested that school buses should have seat belts, I thought, "sure, that makes sense." But now someone with experience in the field writes and points out why that would be a bad idea, and I'm convinced. Very well done! And come to think of it, kids would use seat belts to whap other kids. Of course they would.

As a participant in a few vehicle crashes and one school bus crash that saw our bus on it's side in a ditch in the end, I can attest that seatbelts are a great idea. It's amazing how violently things, and people, fly around in a crash. To me, there's no way to argue students are as safe without seatbelts as they would be with them. Having said that, I agree they'd be useless on a school bus because no one would use them. Bus drivers, bus companies, parents, school boards, none of them could make kids buckle up, even though most wouldn't think of going in a car without it. Buses are reasonably safe, but crashes happen.