Do you have any idea about the effect of seat belt? No, have you ever think about the effect of seat belt? These days, pup up the arguing about seat belts in school buses in Kearney, Nebraska. Most of states going to put seat belts in school buses and most parents want it also but according to study, seat belts are not help to save kids from serious injuries and they said sometimes seat belts threat kids’ safety. Except this argument, they still have arguments against lap belts and three-point seat belts in buses. Because of these points, Kearney juried out on seat belts in school buses.
The main point of this argument is seat belts is good or bad foe our kids’ safety. According to some articles, the National Transportation Safety Board said adding seat belts to school buses will cause additional head injuries and probably additional deaths in some crashes and they recommended to society instead of putting seat belts on school buses, putting better padding to protect the students. They have supporting evidence which is pretty science based well. They use a computer model used by investigators, and analyzed accidents. The computer model predicted if a kid wearing lap and shoulder belts, the kid would have been twice serious injuries compare to in case of no belts in the bus.
However, the seat belt is really not working, why many people all over the world use the seat belt still now? They said the case of kid is different. Well then, why expert recommend to people, put the car seat on their car for their kids as well? The car seat for kid has the belt for prevent kids, also. It is the clear evidence the seat belt is help to keep one’s life. In case of South Korea, they use a lot of buses for transportation. Of course many people have their own car but Korea is quite small country and fuel for car is really expensive, so many people use transportation in everyday. Narrow road and crowded people who use the road always cause dangerous situations or accidents. Sometimes news report about large clash accidents or turn over, falling accidents of big buses but always said that they can keep their lives by seat belts. Last month, the tour bus turn over on the hill because of broken break, but nobody dead in that bus because every passenger wear seat belts following by bus drivers order. In the Japan, they reported their rate of death by car accident reduced follow eight years. They thought this fact caused by wearing seat belt include back seat of cars.
The problem of school bus is not seat belt but their seats. For reduce kids’ injury on the school buses, people have to check the seats. Kids have very different body from adults, so they have to seat on the special seat that designed for Kids. Not just fix the seat, put seat belts on the seats also. Well designed seats and seat belts for kids can keep our kids in safety from the accidents.
However, just compliment buses are not enough to keep the kid. Everyday almost 400 students use the school buses in Kearney. It is not small number. It’s truly common phrase, kids are our future so we have a duty for keep our kids in safety. Equipments can’t help them completely, so we need personal efforts. In Korea society, the buses are illegal which an instructor does not ride on the bus with kids except bus driver. It is proper rule because one adult cannot control many kids. During the driving, driver cannot consider kids statue, also. It means during driving nobody take care the kids and kids are free to move. Actually in Korea, this rule not kept well so many kids dead by mistake of driver for example, hit by back up bus. To prevent this tragic, change seat, put on seat belt on the seat and at least two adult on the bus with kids. In addition to educate kids about their safety also make the rule. This is the best way to prevent our children from dangerous situations when they are on the bus.
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