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I once attended an inquest on the death of an elderly lady who was thrown down the aisle of a bus when it applied its emergency brakes. She slammed into a bulkhead and fractured her neck, back, and skull. She'd been sitting down when the bus braked, but didn't have a seat or a jawbreaker bar (they actually call them that in the coachbuilders industry) in front of her. They reckon even someone young and in full health could have been killed by the forces involved. Two other people who'd been seriously injured under similar circumstances contacted the paper after reading about it.

Black Wizard said:
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It's Papa Christmas. What could be confusing about that?
 
The bar would probably have saved her life, stopping her being thrown all the way down the bus aisle.
 
People probably wouldn't use them if they're just going a few stops, plus buses are normally travelling quite slowly in built-up areas, and it would cost manufacturers a small fortune. There was a campaign to get belts installed on seats that don't have a barrier or seat directly in front of them.
 
Brigantium said:
People probably wouldn't use them if they're just going a few stops, plus buses are normally travelling quite slowly in built-up areas, and it would cost manufacturers a small fortune. There was a campaign to get belts installed on seats that don't have a barrier or seat directly in front of them.
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So, this is really interesting. Many probably heard about the Humboldt Broncos bus crash earlier this year that took out a small town hockey team, most of whom were killed by being ejected from the bus and the related difficulties this caused. It turns out that there was quite an extensive study on the use of seatbelts that occurred in the 1980s on busses and that they would be much safer with them, but the report was buried. It's a minor scandal right now.
 
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