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Is any USA has law for tour bus passengers having to buckle up?

I visited Australia last year, all tour buses short or long distance have seat belts all over the bus, and bus won't move until everybody buckle up. I found it amusing in the beginning but than I think it is very smart and might save people lives in catastrophic events. Did anyone tried to lobby it here in the states?

Public Comments

1. there is a proposal to require buses to have seat belts but it does not apply to buses already in existence
2. In the UK the law states that seat belts must be fitted, but there are no regulations stating that they must actually be used. It's left to every passenger's individual choice. I can't answer your question regarding the USA, but if seat belts were being used in the tragedy in the Bronx yesterday,it's possible that they could have been partly to blame for the high number of fatalities. Gravity would have piled everyone down on one side instead of them being held in their seats and possibly more passengers could have survived. No doubt the enquiry will come to some conclusion regarding what happened but the seat belt debate will run on and on.
3. No, and it would cost more lives than it would save. Cars are so much more dangerous than buses that for every person this law saved, there would be several who would die because this law caused them to go in a car instead of a bus.
4. US laws are like the UK, the buses have to have them (but oddly enough, not school buses) but using them not required. As to the benefit, I would point you to the recent bus accident in New York, where those who had seat belts on were held in their seats and not thrown to the lower side of the bus as a pole cut through it. Seat belts save lives.