{"id":9546,"date":"2020-02-24T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:55:20","slug":"renewed-calls-for-seat-belts-on-school-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/renewed-calls-for-seat-belts-on-school-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed calls for seat belts on school buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsc.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Safety Council<\/a> (NSC) is renewing its call for seat belts on school buses.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NSC, 100 people are killed and 10,000 are injured in school bus-related crashes every year. Most school buses only include a seat belt for the driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree-point seat belts for all passengers would help mitigate school bus-related deaths and injuries,\u201d the NSC stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchool buses are designed to protect students through compartmentalization \u2013 closely spaced seats and high, energy-absorbing seat backs \u2013 but seat belts would further protect students in side-impact or rollover crashes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSC is also reminding drivers to be cautious around school buses, and obey school bus flashing signs and stop arms when activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Safety Council (NSC) is renewing its call for seat belts on school buses. According to the NSC, 100 people are killed and 10,000 are injured in school bus-related crashes every year. Most school buses only include a seat belt for the driver. \u201cThree-point seat belts for all passengers would help mitigate school bus-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-safety-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}