I just saw a commercial a minute ago... "Acoording to Montana state law all passengers in all vehicles, EXCEPT CHILDREN ON SCHOOL BUSES must wear a seatbelt"... Am I the only one that sees something wrong here?
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Yeah it does seem a bit odd that the only exceptions are the children.
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LOL I always thought it was funny and fucked up that school buses have no seatbeats. I always rode in a car but there was field-trips. Even before that I wondered why no seatbelts lol
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I am sure money was involved as to why no seat-belts were mandatory for school buses. Here in Tennessee it is the same. I was never into this law of forcing people to strap themselves into their vehicles. But then when I was younger I was trapped in a burning car and almost lost my life due to a seat belt jamming. If it had not been for a hunter cutting me out I would have been burned alive.
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if it involves the government, nothing is surprising or usually makes logical sense...
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It is being realistic. On school buses, there is no supervisor, so that there is no adult to enforce the law. Children on other buses or in cars should be being supervised by their parents, so the parents are responsible for ensuring that children wear belts. Children cannot be criminally responsible, so the "responsible adult" is the driver. So if a child at the back takes off their seatbelt, the driver can be prosecuted. It is difficult enough getting school bus drivers, and you *don't* want the driver distracted from the road by worrying about the fools at the back not wearing their seatbelts. So the law makers have a choice: put in the loophole you are protesting about, or force every school bus in the state to carry an adult supervisor in addition to the driver at all times (the bus cannot move with children on board unless the supervisor is there). The latter would cost en enormous amount. So they opted for the former.
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What are you going to do, charge the driver for not making sure the kids at the back are wearing seatbelts while s/he's trying to concentrate on the road? Having supervisors installed would be expensive and grossly authoritarian.
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