Other than Texas, only eight states have a law mandating seat belts on school buses. Texas' 2017 law mandates that all newly purchased school buses built after 2018 have three-point safety restraints, ...

Every morning, children across the country board big yellow school buses, a familiar and trusted mode of student transportation. But other vehicles like cars, trucks, SUVs and more (except for ...

Some might see seat-belt mandates on school buses as a no-brainer, but the issue is more complicated than it seems.

That safety slogan so often cited by traffic safety experts doesn’t apply to the biggest passenger vehicles on the road. There’s no federal or Montana law that requires buses to have passenger seat ...

For the past couple months, news outlets have been reporting on how seat belts in school buses probably would save lives. They reported several students a year are killed because there aren't seat ...

Public pressure makes it likely that seat belts will become a part of school buses, he said. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A national bus safety expert told a task force Thursday that seat belts can make ...

Federal officials have long urged states to implement seat belt requirements on school buses, but only nine states have done so. On the first day of school for a district in Clark County, Ohio, one ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling on the state of Texas and school districts to implement enforceable seat belt policies on school buses in the wake of an ...

Impassioned debates about safety tend to follow every deadly wreck involving a school bus — such as Thursday’s tragedy in Morris County, New Jersey. A bus collided with a dump truck and flipped, ...