Is this legal??

Lena · Sep 18, 2008

My dd kept telling me that there is a baby that rides her school bus. Honestly I didn't believe her or assumed it was just a doll.
Then this morning I watched the bus driver shake up a bottle and hand it to a teenager (I assume another child of hers) to feed her infant. There was a carrier car seat sitting on the seat too.

Is this legal? Should I be reporting this? If so, to who? The bus garage? CPS? police?

MomToEliEm · Sep 18, 2008

I think schoolbuses are except from seatbelt laws which would mean an infant could ride unrestrained.

You can add a temporary seatbelt type device to must bus seats which would allow you to install a carseat into a bus. I think we have a member on the board who has their carseat installed rearfacing on the bus she drives.

I found the post showing a carseat installed on a school bus:
http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=42911

Lena · Sep 18, 2008

It's a carrier car seat sitting sideways on the seat, it can't be properly installed sideways.

Neatfreak · Sep 19, 2008

In the last city I lived in, the school bus companies were actively recruiting stay-at-home parents, and one of the job perks that they promoted was "bring your at-home children with you". My first thought when reading your post is that your DD's bus driver was encouraged to bring her baby on her route.

I know about the compartmentalization effect and school buses, but I am a little baffled by bringing an infant seat onboard, and then not actually installing it. I guess it keep the baby in one spot, if nothing else ...

emandbri · Sep 19, 2008

This isn't the case here though obviously since the infant seat is sideways, but there are some school buses that have seat belts in the first row just for this very purpose. There are some pictures here somewhere that a women took of her 2 year old in a seat installed rear-facing on a school bus, let me see if I can find the post.

Found it! He is so cute!

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=42911&highlight=school+bus+pictures

Carefulove · Sep 19, 2008

Neatfreak said:
...the school bus companies were actively recruiting stay-at-home parents, and one of the job perks that they promoted was "bring your at-home children with you"...

:yeahthat: Where I live too!

emandbri said:
...but there are some school buses that have seat belts in the first row just for this very purpose...

:yeahthat:

My sister is currently taking classes to become a school bus driver. She is taking her 3 y/o son in the bus with her, in his E.Triumph. She tells me that the first seat has a seatbelt so you can install a carseat there.

CTRS4peds · Sep 19, 2008

Where at in Va Beach?

Lena · Sep 19, 2008

CTRS4peds said:
Where at in Va Beach?

Bayside area.

I called the bus garage or whatever it's called here. They blew me off but took my information to pass along.
Today the kids came home and said that "the bus driver ran over a street sign but it's okay because no one got hurt."
I think I'll be driving them from now on.

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