Transportation
And the School Bus Seat Belt Debate Lives On
School buses were designed to be the safest mode of transport for kids, but at least 18 states are considering mandatory seat belt laws.
When a school bus in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slammed into a tree in November and killed six elementary school students, a decades-old debate resurfaced: Why don’t school buses have seat belts, and would seat belts actually make buses safer?
“Every time there is a crash with a school bus, it seems to be the most obvious thing to do,” says Richard Williams, former director of regulatory studies at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.