Does the statute include a schools summer or camp programs?
Isn’t a van safer because it has seat belts while a school bus does not? No. In fact, comparable sized small school buses are required to have seat belts because they weigh less than 10,000 pounds. School buses, as indicated above, have markedly superior per road mile safety records than all other vehicles, regardless of the seat belt issue. In fact, school buses are designed with a “compartmentalization” concept, which keeps children within and near their seats by placing the seats forward to them very close and with significant interior padding and other safety features What about day care centers, girl scout troops and programs for the elderly? Congress, in its wisdom, created special protections on nonconforming vans especially for children on their way to and from school and transported by their school district. This law has not been extended to protect others, and many safety experts say that Congress should look to address this issue, particularly for children transported by day
