Seatbelts are required by law where I live for normal vehicles. In a bus, it seems like seatbelts would be much more necessary so that in an accident, people don’t turn into projectiles where there’s more people than in a normal car.
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Because busses are so much larger. The reason seat belts are needed to prevent people becoming projectiles is because cars stop so much faster. But if a bus hits a car, it just flattens it. If it’s hit from the side, then seatbelts actually INCREASE the risk of injury substantially. Studies have repeatedly failed to find any real benefit to adding seatbelts to larger vehicles. According to the NHSTA, in the majority of fatal accidents, seatbelts provided no benefit anyway. They’re only really useful in minimizing injuries in minor accident, which aren’t really a concern for busses. Any accident powerful enough to kill someone on a bus is powerful enough to overcome a piece of fabric.
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