In most cases, the passage of seat belt laws resulted from a school bus crash that resulted in death or injury to students. ...

When she first stepped foot on a school bus, she was terrified to learn that there were no seat belts and didn't understand how school buses were the exception to the seat belt rule. After many ...

The bill's consideration comes one year after a concrete pumper truck hit a Hays CISD school bus in Bastrop County, killing a ...

But it might not get the attention of drivers as quickly. Oh, and if you're wondering about the seat belts, big school buses don't need them. They use something called "crash protection through ...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, seat belts don’t offer an advantage on school buses because they are designed to be safer than passenger vehicles in preventing ...

Following a deadly crash in Bastrop in 2024, a Senate bill would tighten requirements for seat belts on buses and enhance ...

The Texas Senate bill aims to enforce 3-point seat belts on school buses, removing exemptions for 2-point belts.

Some states don’t buy that. Four heavily populated states – New York, New Jersey, California and Florida – require seat belts in school buses. Another big state – Texas – will soon ...

Currently, 77% of the district's school buses have seat belts. But by the start of the 2025-26 school year, the district says all of them will have seat belts. “Those conversations are always ...

The aide was using her cell phone and had ear buds on when a seat belt became wrapped around the neck of disabled student.