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There have been three more major bus crashes in the past two weeks, one involving a school bus, one involving a Greyhound bus and one involving a tour bus. As usual, virtually everybody on all of the busses were injured. In the Greyhound and tour bus crashes, there were fatalities. As usual, most of the injuries and all of the fatalities would have been prevented if there had been lap and shoulder seat belts for the passengers.
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Last week on Monday, on September 30th, a Greyhound bus crashed in central California when a passenger attacked the driver. The bus veered off the road, rolled onto its side and slid to a stop. Two passengers were killed and everybody on the bus was injured because the passengers, who were not restrained in their seats by lap and shoulder seat belts, went flying through the air until they crashed hard into something or someone. For more details, see this article in the Fresno Bee.
Also last week, on Thursday, October 3rd, a tour bus crashed in central Utah when the brakes failed. Just like in the Greyhound crash three days earlier, the bus veered off the road, rolled onto its side and slid to a stop. This time, six passengers were killed and everybody on the bus was injured because the passengers, who were not restrained in their seats by lap and shoulder seat belts, went flying through the air until they crashed hard into something or someone. For more details, see this article in the Deseret News.
Yesterday, in southeastern Michigan, a semi truck crashed into the side of a school bus when, apparently, the bus driver didn't yield at an intersection. According to these stories in the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, the bus got spun around several times. As usual, just about everybody on the bus got injured because there were no lap and shoulder seat belts on the bus to restrain the passengers in their seats. Although there were no fatalities yet at the time that this story was published, several passengers remain hospitalized in critical condition. Certainly, the injuries at the point where the truck penetrated the side of the bus would have occurred with or without seat belts, but most other passengers would have been far better off and probably would have avoided injury entirely if they had been restrained in their seats by lap and shoulder safety belts.
Today, Rob Sherman Advocacy publishes a School Bus Safety Fact Sheet and a School Bus Safety Petition.
Here is the Fact Sheet:
School Bus Safety
Fact Sheet
Unrestrained passengers get injured in crashes because they are "loose in the box."
Compartmentalization maims and severely injures passengers without killing them.
Compartmentalization is a safety fraud by the bus industry, which bases its claim on few riders killed while ignoring huge numbers of riders unnecessarily injured.
The real purpose for compartmentalization is to increase profits for bus operators by cramming more passengers into smaller spaces at the expense of reduced safety.
Compartmentalization reduces, rather than increases, safety in a front-impact crash because passengers sit twisted in their seats to compensate for the loss of room.
Compartmentalization reduces safety in side-impact and roll-over crashes because passengers fly through the air until they slam hard into something or someone.
Lap/shoulder belts are necessary to provide adequate passenger safety.
Insurance discounts would offset the cost of putting lap/shoulder belts on busses.
What You Can Do to Help
Become an associate of Rob Sherman Advocacy to become part of a coordinated, multi-faceted effort to get lap/shoulder belts on all transit, especially school busses.
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Here is the Petition:
School Bus Safety
Petition
I want legislation enacted that requires lap/shoulder seat belts for all passengers on buses and trains and requires insurance discounts to help pay for it.
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The effort of Rob Sherman Advocacy continues to get government officials to require lap and shoulder belts on all forms of mass transportation. Please help this effort by becoming an associate or a financial supporter of Rob Sherman Advocacy.
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