Yesterday, it was a typical January morning in Omaha and the driving was anything but easy. A guy in a red pickup, far too eager to get there, wherever 'there' was, ended up off the road and in the ditch, his trusty stead's grill wrapped around a tree. In the process of getting to that tree, he came very close to using the school bus, instead, to inhibit his forward progress.
As with all accidents, it happened very fast. So fast, in fact, the kids on the bus didn't even have time to scream. And, believe me, with far less provocation than this, kids can scream very quickly.
School buses may not be pretty but they are safe. They're built like a tank and I'm sure we'd all have been fine, even if the truck had hit us. So, please, the next time there's an accident involving a school bus, don't jump to that knee-jerk reaction: "Why don't school buses have seat belts?" They are not needed, It would be impossible to enforce their use and they would be far too handy a weapon for settling disputes.
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