Toddler on bus

[Edd]

I appreciate your explanations and I have read them fully. No, I agree and we don't need to talk about this anymore. You must be a great expert witness for an attorny attempting to persuade a Jury one way or another. Your explanations deserve to be in a court of law.

But, for the Disboards I consider it like overkill and I am sure many readers feel the same. Most of us, including me, don't even like to muddle our brains with your most elegant explanations. Being retired has given me the pleasure of leading a quiet and successful life, still meeting you guys whenever I get a chance.

 

[clkelley]

First off, school boards are now putting seat belts in busses, seminole county, Florida. The story was broke before the 4 girls were killed in Alabama in the school bus accident. The reason school and commercial busses don't have seat belts is a money factor, nothing more.

I am very familiar with the bus crash in Alabama (my son actually knew a couple of those girls as acquaintences)and that accident was unique because the bus and car were on an elevated highway section. The bus went over the overpass and fell at least 30 feet. Not sure if seatbelts would have changed anything in that instance. Now, all buses driven by that particular bus company for the school system must travel on ground level roads. If a similar accident had occured on a ground level roadway, the bus would have barely gotten a scratch.

 

[Edd]

You made a typical comment. If and If, you are not to sure of the statments you made. The reality is that there were 4 young girls killed in an accident where a seat belt might have saved them. You cannot say whether or not a seat belt would have helped, but I can say seatbelts were not installed on the bus and therefore the question will forever remain. Would a seat belt have saved their lives? Personally, you have not impressed me as much to consider you an expert on the subject. I can tell you most insurance companies and healthcare companies would answer in the affirmative. Yes, a seatbelt would have saved their lives. They would be the experts in that they deal with this on a daily basis.

 

[Lewisc]

Seat belts aren't required on buses. Seat belts aren't generally on tour buses, city buses or school buses. Customers who want seat belts have no option other than rent a car at MCO.

The federal government has agreed with industry lobbyists who claim buses are safe without seat belts. This really isn't a Disney issue.

You made a typical comment. If and If, you are not to sure of the statments you made. The reality is that there were 4 young girls killed in an accident where a seat belt might have saved them. You cannot say whether or not a seat belt would have helped, but I can say seatbelts were not installed on the bus and therefore the question will forever remain. Would a seat belt have saved their lives? Personally, you have not impressed me as much to consider you an expert on the subject. I can tell you most insurance companies and healthcare companies would answer in the affirmative. Yes, a seatbelt would have saved their lives. They would be the experts in that they deal with this on a daily basis.

 

[Geoff_M]

I can tell you most insurance companies and healthcare companies would answer in the affirmative.

It's interesting that you bring that point up.... I can assure you that if insurance companies felt that adding seat belts to school buses would save lives, and therefore reduce damage payouts to families of the victims, they would mandate that schools systems install such belts and refuse to underwrite the liability of a school system if they refused to comply. It's about money for insurance companies too and they can exact a lot of change in a client by such demands. I can assure you that insurance companies wield a lot more power over this issue than any "Industry Lobbyists".

..but I can say seatbelts were not installed on the bus and therefore the question will forever remain.

True, but you have perfectly illustrated that this anecdotal incident cannot be used as evidence either for or against the installation of seat belts in school buses. It also appears from the poster's comments(*) that in the aftermath of the tragedy, the neither the school system nor its insurance carrier has mandated the use of belts.

* = Seeing as the poster appears to be in or near the school district in question, I think it's safe to say they're qualified to be an expert about what happened there after the fact.

 

[clkelley]

You made a typical comment. If and If, you are not to sure of the statments you made. The reality is that there were 4 young girls killed in an accident where a seat belt might have saved them. You cannot say whether or not a seat belt would have helped, but I can say seatbelts were not installed on the bus and therefore the question will forever remain. Would a seat belt have saved their lives? Personally, you have not impressed me as much to consider you an expert on the subject. I can tell you most insurance companies and healthcare companies would answer in the affirmative. Yes, a seatbelt would have saved their lives. They would be the experts in that they deal with this on a daily basis.

I never said I was an expert, I just said I am familiar with the accident. I'm also familiar with the roadway it occurred on. (I drive on it at least twice a week.)