# Seat belts on school busses.  Why not?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 28, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seat-belts-on-school-busses-why-not/732886 "2015-09-28T23:39:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seat-belts-on-school-busses-why-not/732886/14 "2015-09-29T11:28:01Z")

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> [@Crazyhorse](#):
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> Weapons? Can you find an example of this ever actually happening? There are already millions of school buses on the roads that are fitted with seat belts so if I can “rest assured that it would happen”, it must already have.

Apparently it happened to **grue** :

> [@Any updates on seat-belts in school buses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-seat-belts-in-school-buses/662580/2):
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> Then there’s the obvious missing bit in the reasons not to have seatbelts on school buses: because there are also school children on school buses. Short buses have seat belts. I rode on a short bus in grade school. Seatbelt fights were a constant thing. And those things HURT.

> [@Seat belts in school buses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seat-belts-in-school-buses/700696/1):
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> [Why are there no seatbelts on school buses? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1289/why-are-there-no-seatbelts-on-school-buses)
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> Surprisingly, Cecil didn’t mention the other source of additional injuries that would be sustained on school buses if they had seat belts: kids hitting each other with them. Seatbelt fights were a common occurrence on the short bus I rode as a kid.

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