school buses have always been painted national school bus chrome yellow,
but here is a thought, it is universally accepted that wearing a seat belt saves lives when the vehicle is involved in an accident, in school buses every bus has a seat belt for the driver, and school buses weighing under 10,000 pounds are required to have them, but, there aren’t seat belts on most of them,
one of the reasons is that the closely spaced seats (the bane of the knees of tall students) are also shock-absorbent and able to protect children effectively enough according to studies by the National Transportation Safety Board and National Academy of Sciences, the seat design and spacing more or less functions as a “protective envelope.”
which is great news unless you are a member of the family who has lost a loved one, figures show that 11 students die per year in school bus crashes, but mile for mile, this is about 1/7th the average rate of deaths in all other automobile accidents, but back to the yellow buses, I now know why they are all painted national school bus chrome yellow.
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