Travel Car Seats Uk
Travel Car Seats Uk
Travel Car Seats Uk
Why do children have to have booster seats for cars by law in the uk but not for travelling on a public bus?
I just wondered about this as kids don’t even have seat belts on buses if the bus were suddenly to stop.
Buses that are 10,000lbs or less have seatbelts in them, but a regular school bus does not. Public transportation buses that have seats like that of a school bus do not require them either. Passenger seating and crash protection, known as “compartmentalization” is required on school buses. Compartmentalization is a passive occupant protection system using the concept of eggs in a carton. The seats must have flexible, enery-absorbent high seat backs. The combination of these seat backs and narrow spacing creates a compartment within which each occupant is confined in a crash….make sense?? Bus transportation, or to be specific, school bus transportation, is 8 times safer than passenger vehicles. Buses are larger and heavier than most other vehicles. The crash forces are distributed throughout the vehicle differently and are experienced by the occupants differently.
Laws exempt buses, taxis, public transportation from child restraint laws, which, I agree is crazy, but who is going to carry around child seats for 3 kids?? yeah, no one. 