A little old lady pulled out in front of the PU truck southbound on Hoover. No speeding, just not paying attention.

And it only takes 10 minutes to get from one end of town to the other.

"Atkins 87, of New Holland, was transported to Lancaster General Hospital, New Holland Borough police said. The severity of her injuries was not known......Atkins, who was heading eastbound on West Conestoga Street, was stopped at a stop sign, police said. She then pulled her car into the intersection without seeing a pickup driven by Tracy Good, 25, of Ephrata, traveling northbound on North Hoover Avenue, police said.

The truck struck the car, which then hit the school bus, which had been stopped at the intersection heading west on West Conestoga Street, police said."

Hmm...drag strip ehhh??? Not so much.

It's possible, but since the injury is unknown we can only spectulate what her injury was.
Obvisously since she was sent home, her injury wasn't life threatening. I am sorry she was injured but am thankful she was able to go home.

As a school bus driver I can tell you that the seats are designed with the safety of the children in mind. The padding on the seats have to be a certain thickness to pertect the children from the metal inside. I can remember when the metal was visible on the corners of the seat back. The placement of the seats is also considered for the protection of the children. This is to help keep the child from being thrown to far front or back, since most accidents are front-end or rear-end accidents.
The major accidents for a bus do not happen as often, as the 2 mentioned above. They would be colliding with a tractor trailer truck, being struck by a train or flipping on it's side. These are the accidents were major injuries can and do happen to the children. I am not sure seat belts would pertect children from injuries in these types of injuries.

I also need to say if there were seat bealts on a 72 passenger school bus, there would probably greater risk for injury, unless tax payers agree for a tax raise to pay for bus aides on big buses also. How can you expect the bus driver to make sure all children click their seat belt? Do you really want the driver getting out of the drivers seat at every stop to help the small children who can't click or unclick their belt themselves, and to make sure that empty seats have the belts hooked to prevent injury from a hanging belt? Whats to stop an older child from using a lose belt as a weapon to strike another child.
I felt the same way about seat belts on a bus until I became a bus driver and gained the knowledge of the construction of the seats and also leaned that it would be impossible for me alone to make sure every child clicks the belt.

To help prevent injury to your child if their bus should be involved in an accident teach them to stay seated, as if they have a seat belt on.
I see so many children riding in cars who are standing up while the car is in motion, but yet parents want seat belts in school buses. Just teach your child to sit and by all means make them wear their belt when you take them away in your car. If you allow them to ride with you unstrapped how can you expect them to ride a bus strapped in?