Transport committee  I can't speak specifically to any types of additional safety measures that are in a bus. Typically, with passenger vehicles, we are dealing with supplemental restraint systems, such as airbag systems. I can't speak to the practicality of adding those throughout a bus.

Transport committee  I can't speak to anybody's thought process when they go along with that. As an organization, we're just mandated to uphold the laws and conduct our investigations in the collisions we happen to be called to. I can't speak to anybody else.

Transport committee  Inexperience of drivers tends to be a large one. When I say drivers, I don't mean the bus drivers, I mean other drivers on the road and their inattentiveness. A lot of the collisions happen at intersections. Personally, I've never investigated a bus-related collision that did not

Transport committee  I've never seen a collision where a coach or a bus was broken in half in the centre. When I spoke about that earlier, it was in regard to the car or the truck striking the side of a bus that is typically damaged more than the bus because of the size and design of the buses. Each

Transport committee  I did not, no.

Transport committee  Typically, when buses are involved in collisions, be it a school bus or a motorcoach, they're the larger vehicle involved in the collision and the injuries are more serious in the other vehicles. Collision dynamics are very different when you go from a front-end collision to a

Transport committee  Size, mass is the base answer. Typically, coaches are much larger and have much more mass to them than a passenger car.

Transport committee  If a seat belt is improperly worn, it won't do what it's designed to do in protecting your body in the event of a collision. If you don't have the torso strap over your chest or torso, it is not uncommon for you to be able to slide out from underneath of the seatbelt. For people