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Originally Posted by GWC...

So, when will all school buses be required to have seatbelts, if it's so important?

I didn't know that answer, so I checked at our region's nearest, truest Nanny-State—Canada's "Ministry of Transport".

Canada transports millions of kids every day, and average one school bus traffic fatality per year. Their reason is that school children walking to school face a far greater danger than while riding unbelted in school buses!

School bus drivers are required to buckle up, and some Provinces prohibit cellphone use by school bus drivers. (Good idea, eh?).

http://www.safety-council.org/info/t...schbusbelt.htm

Originally Posted by vrrooom

Acording to news reports the Gov was riding in the front seat, unbelted. The driver a trooper and the Gov's aide in the back seat were able to "walk away". A classic and typical example of wealthy politicians, who push laws for the "common(er's)" good, but believe they are way above the law.

The point "lost" was that he rode unbuckled in the front seat.

Governor Corzine suffered a compound fracture of one femur (broken in two places), but calling his "rib fractures" oversimplifies his injuries. (Quote from another forum, below).

"Corzine suffered 12 rib fractures, a sternum fracture, a collarbone fracture, and vertebral fractures. At the very least he has a flail chest. I haven’t heard anything about his liver, spleen, or lungs yet."

BTW: Walking back to my office and while waiting for a traffic light to change, I've seen many a momma front seat passenger—unbuckled—carrying an infant on her lap. Good idea, Governor Corzine?

Originally Posted by puck

While wearing a seatbelt may make you safer in case of an accident, I have to disagree that seatbelts make you a safer driver. If anything they give you a false sense of security much the same way as four wheel drive does for so many people. The more secure people feel, the more careless people get.

I dropped off my car in Alton last year and hitched a ride home with the mechanic in his truck. (What the heck, he does New Hampshire vehicle inspections, right?)

Not only did the driver "light up" (which made me want to reconsider the free ride) the seatbelt was missing from my side!

Try that ride for a no-belt experience!