Think about the seat belts in your car. Most of them go over your shoulder and across your lap. But in millions of cars in the U.S., the middle back seat only has a lap belt. Safety experts say that ...

A mother of a student aboard a school bus that crashed in Redlands on Wednesday morning questioned why the bus wasn’t equipped with seat belts, but some federal studies show the safety devices could ...

Q: Michael Ward of San Bernardino recently bought a 1970 Camaro. When the car was new, he said, it was equipped with lap seat belts, no shoulder harness seat belts. Ward asked if the Camaro is “still ...

Study reveals that lap-and-shoulder seat belts perform as well as child safety seats in preventing serious injury. For young children, all states currently require the use of child safety seats, and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha County school transportation officials want the public to know about the benefits and dangers of using seat belts on school buses. Currently, West Virginia does not have a ...

Legislator Ben Chan says some operators could consider switching to lap belts to make it easier for passengers to alight.

Vicky Robles would never let her 13-year-old daughter, Melissa, hop into the family SUV without buckling a seat belt. But each day, Melissa rides to school in Orange in a bus that doesn’t have ...

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