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Presented here are links to numerous websites devoted to seat belts in motor vehicle transportation. If you wish to return to the STN Website after visiting any of the hotlinks listed here, close the second browser window that will open on your screen.

    • IMMI of Westfield, Indiana is offering the SafeGuard 3-point lap/shoulder belt restraint system. The company's website describes IMMI's four year research project, including half a dozen full scale dynamic bus crash tests and more than 70 sled tests, to develop a lap and shoulder belt occupant protection system for school buses.
    • The C.E. White Company's website features the Student Safety Seat System, a 3-point lap/shoulder belt restraint system
    • School Bus Seat Belt Issue Heating Up: Report by Joan Lowy for the Scripps Howard News Service. April 1999
    • Check out the Bus Action Committee. This is a grass roots effort by parents in Australia demanding that improved occupant protection is provided to school children. There, standees are allowed in school buses.
    • Users interested in learning the arguments in favor of seat belts on large school buses should visit National Coalition for Seat Belts on School Buses. This site offers extensive documentation about the pro seatbelt position.
    • Click here for the National Safety Council's Airbag & Seat Belt Safety Campaign. It has an impressive list of supporters.
    • Check out the National Safety Council's National Safety Belt Coalition.
    • At this site the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety offers guidance about increasing seat belt usage among employees.
    • The New York Governor's Traffic Safety Committee offers information about how to make all buses and subways safer for kids.
    • Operation Safe Stop is a law enforcement and education initiative addressing the problem of motorists who illegally pass stopped school buses. It is a cooperative effort between the student transportation industry and state, county, city and local law enforcement.

      More than a dozen of the reports presented elsewhere on this website have hotlinks to universities, associations, advocacy groups, state and federal agencies, and Canadian sources for information about seat belts on school buses. Uers can find these reports in the Table of Contents section of this website. From there in the Webmaster Notes section of individual pages, users can hotlink to the original source.

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