Links
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.
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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
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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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