School Buses:

Question: How many school buses are there in the United States?
Answer: About 440,000. (Source: National School Transportation Agency).
Question: What would it cost to put seatbelts on all the school buses in the U.S.?
Answer: About a billion dollars. (Sources: Washington Post, Texas Department of Public Safety, California Department of Education).
Question: How many children take the school bus to school?
Answer: Approximately 23.5 million. (Source: National School Transportation Agency).
Question: How many children are killed each year on school buses as a result of school bus accidents?
Answer: Between five and ten. ( Sources:  Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Texas Department of Public Safety).
Question: How many would be saved by seatbelts?
Answer: Probably none. (Source: "The Truth About Seatbelts" in the Documents section of this website).

Seatbelts on school buses? Take a look: http://user.mc.net/hyden/busfire.html

Many people have burned to death because they couldn't get their seatbelt buckles open after a crash. Can you imagine such a scene on a school bus?

Note to parents: School bus fatalities are extremely rare, but if the children in the recent Alabama school bus accident had been wearing seatbelts, many might have been seriously injured or killed by their seatbelts - from broken necks, burst intestines, burst spleens, and crushed chests. Another thing to bear in mind is that seatbelt buckles have been known to jam after a crash. If that bus had caught fire and the children had been wearing seatbelts, many might have been burned to death. (Take a look at http://user.mc.net/hyden/busfire.html).
All those not wearing seatbelts survived, except  those in the front, who were crushed to death when the bus was stove in.
One other note: We have a report that when the bus driver saw that the bus was going over, he unbuckled his seatbelt and jumped, thereby saving his life.