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Seatbelts aren’t just for cars anymore. And if parents want their kids to be safer on school busses, they need to educate them on the importance of safety belts, said Ken Phillips. Phillips is the Supervisor of Transportation for Bay District Schools.
“If you’re strongly concerned about the safety of your child on the bus, you can encourage those students to wear those seatbelts at all times,” Phillips said.
He also wants drivers in Bay County to stop neglecting traffic laws around school busses. Jim Chambers has been a bus driver for 12 years. He said the job is all about multitasking, and watching out for other drivers.
“It may not be my actions operating the bus [that cause an accident,]” Chambers said.
“It may be somebody else’s actions as far as pulling out in front of us, or stopping directly in front of us.”
Accidents happen rarely in Bay County, Phillips said they had 8 last year, which was a high number for the district. But every time they do happen, safety measures are added to the busses. In 2001, two changes happened as a result of crash studies. The first was an extra four inches added to seatbacks. Phillips said it made a lot of difference, and so did extra padding.
“With this padded feature in front of all the students we are thinking that extra cushion and that extra height will prevent them from rolling forward in the event of a front or rear collision,” Phillips said.
Seatbelts were also added in 2001, and come standard on new buses. 45% of the Bay District fleet now has the belts. Philips said it is cost-prohibitive to add the belts to older busses.
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