Enough to account for 100+ deaths per year, but generally it’s the other vehicles involved where the deaths happen, since busses are huge there is innate protection just due to physics. Breaking it down, about ten people per year die in a school bus because of accidents. On an insurance level, it’s cheaper to pay for ten dead kids a year than it is to install seatbelts, and in capitalism money is more important than the lives of children.
Edit: I got whooshed by my own petard. What I should have said was “You wouldn’t believe.”
An interesting aspect of school bus fatalities is that over the last few decades there have been a roughly equal number of deaths for drivers and for passengers. Since school buses typically have a lot more riders than the single driver, this means that driving a school bus is likely a lot riskier than riding in one.
A (Vehicles in field) x B (Probable failure rate) x C (Avg. settlement) = X; if X < Cost of Recall, don’t recall.
“Which car company did you say you work for?”
“Bluebird.”
Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Enough to account for 100+ deaths per year, but generally it’s the other vehicles involved where the deaths happen, since busses are huge there is innate protection just due to physics. Breaking it down, about ten people per year die in a school bus because of accidents. On an insurance level, it’s cheaper to pay for ten dead kids a year than it is to install seatbelts, and in capitalism money is more important than the lives of children.
Edit: I got whooshed by my own petard. What I should have said was “You wouldn’t believe.”
An interesting aspect of school bus fatalities is that over the last few decades there have been a roughly equal number of deaths for drivers and for passengers. Since school buses typically have a lot more riders than the single driver, this means that driving a school bus is likely a lot riskier than riding in one.