A committee of MPs who probed bus-passenger safety in Canada has decided not to call for seatbelts to be installed on school buses, urging further study instead. The committee heard evidence about the cost of seat belt retrofitting (between $8,000 and $20,000 a bus) the cost of time making sure belts are fastened in a group of children and the liability of drivers if a child is somehow unbuckled, even of his own doing, while the bus is rolling. But on the topic of whether belts will actually save lives, the MPs choked. They said vaguely that seat belts are “not the only solution to ensuring safety.” The CBC story here does not name what, if anything, the MPs had in mind.
