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"Capacity has been a huge obstacle to the pupil transportation
industry adopting lap-shoulder belts, in terms of balancing
capital outlay cost and operational cost with concerns for
student safety. The design of the SafeGuard FlexSeat, I believe,
truly resolves the capacity issue by allowing us to transport
children of various ages in lap-shoulder belts — the
same number we transport with the compartmentalization approach."
Jerry Wynne - Student Transportation Director, Beaufort County
School District
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Comments based on NHTSA testing of IMMI's SafeGuard seat for school buses crashworthiness research. |
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Presentation given at New York's 17th Annual Motor Carrier Safety Conference - October 2002.
Click here to download the full NHTSA presentation.
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"One of the reasons some people have advocated lap belts
in school buses is not because of the protective benefit of
lap belts, so much as it's part of a continuing education that
children should always be buckled up in moving vehicles. We
believe that's important, but it is much more important that
they be buckled up in an effective restraint and that means
a lap—shoulder belt. We think we've got to have good protection
and good education and that means lap—shoulder belts in
school buses."
"A lap shoulder belt will give you better protection in frontal crashes and it will also give you effective protection in side impact crashes and rollover. So, the ideal solution for the school bus, in our opinion, is compartmentalization, plus a good lap shoulder belt."
Brian O'Neill
President - Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
"A lap—shoulder belt can really provide five forms of effective control of the bodies motion in a school bus crash. A lap—shoulder belt can prevent ejection, can also distribute the force over a wide area of the body, also contacts the stronger areas of the body, distributes the force well, and the most important protects the head, neck and spinal cord."
Joseph Colella
Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor
DANA Foundation
"Fleetworks is pleased to make history with the first delivery of buses with SafeGuard Seats with lap-shoulder belts in the US and is looking forward to making many more deliveries in the near future. Fleetworks is committed to promoting and selling this type of safety technology for school buses, the SafeGuard Seat offers both compartmentalization and lap-shoulder belts for our customers, which is why SafeGuard is the preferred supplier of seats with lap-shoulder belts for Fleetworks."
Phil Deetjen, Vice-President of Fleetworks, USA.
-Fleetworks USA is a national school bus distributor with offices in Chicago, IL and Farmington, MI
"The bus is definitely safer because the students are not moving around. The seat belts have conditioned the students to stay in their seats, and its safer for me as the driver because I'm concentrating on driving rather then disciplining a bus full of kids."
Janice Gatliff, Transportation Assistant - Heritage Christian School.
-Heritage Christian School is a private institution participating in pilot program with a full size school bus equipped with SafeGuard seats.
"I feel that my kids are safer in their seats and that lets me focus more on my driving. I think that with these seats I can provide a safer ride for the students and that's first priority. "
Tina Brown, Driver - Durham Transportation Services, Palmdale School District
Proper Seat Solution for All Children
- Height and Weight Appropriate Restraint Systems for All Sizes
- Seating Solutions That Meet Federal and State Regulations For All Markets
– School Bus
– Child Care
– Head Start
– Disabilities
– Church Transportation
– Activity Buses (i.e., college sports teams)
- LATCH, Integrated Child Seat, and Upper Torso Control Options Available
Trouble–Free Maintenance
- Designed for Maintenance and Serviceability
- Components are Commercial Grade for Durability
- Interchangeable Modular Inserts That Offer Quick Optional Upgrades
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