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> From what I have heard specific to your comment from several drivers is that the belts and use required help out new drivers more than experienced drivers. But for all drivers the belts help keep students sitting forward and far less need to be reminding students. Testimonies from researchers and bus drivers in the seat belt study, 'IMPACT OF SEAT BELT USE ON STUDENT CONDUCT ON BUSES,' most of the bus drivers and some principals...

> By the way...The teacher at the time of summer school, when the bus driver came to pick him up, spoke to him specifically about Dereld, basically to not let this happen again like it happened that morning...And my son was still left on the school bus...I live less then 5 mins away from the school...How could he of been left on the school bus TWICE???!?!?!? especially after being spoken too???...People are acting like this was...

> I'd been wondering if it was a belt failure or non-use. I assumed non-use from the get go since he was ejected BEFORE the major crash. It is truely amazing that more kids were not killed. The bus looks pretty darn good considering what happened to it. I feel for the 17 year old in the front row, farthest right. He was ejected and only have minor injuries, all of those to his left were ejected and killed. A 340 pound bus driver flying...

> BUS INSPECTION STANDARS IN PUERTO RICO ARE: COMPLETE SCHOOL BUS INSPECTION EVERY 3 MONTHS. DRIVERS AND OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DAILY PRE-TRIP AND POST-TRIP INSPECTIONS.PREBLEM HERE IS THAT WE ARE NOT SANCTIONED BY ANY "SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION REGULATRORY ENTITY".WE HAVE THE "COMISION DE SERVICIO PUBLICO" (PUBLIC SERVICE COMITTION) WICH STATES THE STANDARS FOR SCHOOL BUS SAFETY AND PROPER MANTAINANCE. THAT SCHOOL BUS...

> interdependent management style, not the hierarchy style hmmmmmmm Through many years of managing, I might add successfully managing, large locations which have not had a sleeper, not one, why because I do my job and insist others do theirs, when I check in buses at schools I always remind the drivers to check the bus while still on school property, radio reminders are a always broadcast, when the buses return back to the yard the empty...

> http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/Channel/School-Bus-Safety/News/2009/11/19/NTSB-Bus-driver-in-Huntsville-crash-was-unbelted.aspx WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The school bus driver in the fatal 2006 crash in Huntsville, Ala., was not wearing his seat belt, which allowed him to be thrown from the bus before it plunged 30 feet off of a highway ramp, according to federal investigators.

> Katrina - I am so sorry that happened to Dereld, you must have been out of your mind! fortunately there was a good outcome. I'm just a regular substitute bus driver, in Florida, so I drive all kinds of kids (regular and special needs). I've never left a student on an empty bus, but I've been surprised at the end of a run when a student's head popped up over the seat! I'm actually pretty surprised there wasn't...

> from previous post............. "Some bus drivers from across the state like the buses because it keeps kids in their seats and not running around or hanging out windows. ..." I thought keeping kids in their seats and not running around was the bus driver's job.

> Yikes...I thought it said the door closed on her head!