Two children killed in school bus accident

One of the worse jobs of a Trooper is giving a death notice to parents. Watching parents falling to pieces, women grabbing hold of my arms to keep from falling on the floor, or watching dad fall to pieces that he can’t hold his wife went right to my heart and I often cried with them. When I would get home, I would squeeze my kids and wife and thank God my family was safe. We never know if we could be in their shoes someday.
 
911 said:
One of the worse jobs of a Trooper is giving a death notice to parents. Watching parents falling to pieces, women grabbing hold of my arms to keep from falling on the floor, or watching dad fall to pieces that he can’t hold his wife went right to my heart and I often cried with them. When I would get home, I would squeeze my kids and wife and thank God my family was safe. We never know if we could be in their shoes someday.
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And the Memorys stay with you forever...
 
911 said:
One of the worse jobs of a Trooper is giving a death notice to parents. Watching parents falling to pieces, women grabbing hold of my arms to keep from falling on the floor, or watching dad fall to pieces that he can’t hold his wife went right to my heart and I often cried with them. When I would get home, I would squeeze my kids and wife and thank God my family was safe. We never know if we could be in their shoes someday.
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The same for physicians, nurses, paramedics and morticians if they have to deal with dead children.

Some decades ago a coroner was asked in a TV interview and answered that to perform autopsies of dead children is the worst for him.
 
jimintoronto said:
Why don't school buses have SEAT BELTS? To me, that makes no sense, at all.
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Hi, Jim. Years ago, my best friend was a school bus mechanic and I asked him the same question.

When bus manufacturers crash-tested school and public transportation buses with and without seat belts, they found the crash-dummies that were belted-in showed more serious injuries and fatalities, and, by far, the child dummies were more damaged by the seat belts than the crashes. With a couple of unique exceptions (i.e. nose-dive off a bridge), adding seat belts increased injuries, especially with child-dummies.

Buses are designed to resist overturning and rolling. They can fall onto their sides in certain types of crashes, but they're extremely unlikely to go into a roll and/or land top-side down. They don't have all-wheel drive, the roofs are intentionally high, seats are close together, flame resistant, and purposely thinner than car seats, and they and the frame are reinforced. All that is to minimize injuries and fatalities in a crash.
 
Murrmurr said:
Hi, Jim. Years ago, my best friend was a school bus mechanic and I asked him the same question.

When bus manufacturers crash-tested school and public transportation buses with and without seat belts, they found the crash-dummies that were belted-in showed more serious injuries and fatalities, and, by far, the child dummies were more damaged by the seat belts than the crashes. With a couple of unique exceptions (i.e. nose-dive off a bridge), adding seat belts increased injuries, especially with child-dummies.

Buses are designed to resist overturning and rolling. They can fall onto their sides in certain types of crashes, but they're extremely unlikely to go into a roll and/or land top-side down. They don't have all-wheel drive, the roofs are intentionally high, seats are close together, flame resistant, and purposely thinner than car seats, and they and the frame are reinforced. All that is to minimize injuries and fatalities in a crash.
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That makes sense to me if the bus would ignite getting kids out of belted seats would be time consuming and more likely more tragic.
 
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