Safety Question: should school buses, with children on board, not be allowed to travel on the interstate system?
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Anonymous
ANSWERS: 4
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After watching Dirty Harry I am strongly opposed to such danger rides.
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Seems to me that more fatal accidents occur on 2-lane roads, 4-lane roads or intersections (due to head-on collisions and the like) than on interstates. I just think that buses should always have the right of way (regardless of whether they are stopping or not) and should have to follow a speed limit of 55 mph (as trucks do in Ohio) on the interstates.
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No, it is fine with existing school buses. The frames are made of cast aluminum and are nearly indestructible unless struck by a freight train broadside or going head on into an abutment. I've seen the wreckage from 60mph head on crashes between a vehicle like a Ford Explorer and a Bluebird bus, and there wasn't a scratch on the bus, it barely moved, all the children were safe, and all the occupants in the Explorer were DOA.
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Why not? I've been on one may times. Although technically it wasn't a bus, it was a motor coach.
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