Tuesday, September 16, 2008

When Common Sense Isn't So Common

A cursory googling on "seat belts in buses and trains" will make it clear that the debate to implement safety restraining systems in trains, commuter buses and school buses has been going on for years. You can hear one side state that a child is safer traveling by bus, albeit without a lap belt, than say riding a bike or being dropped off by parents. Then you see and hear of the tragic devastation when accidents, such as the most recent one involving the Metrolink in Chattsworth, Ca. colliding head-on with a cargo train at 40 mph sending bodies afloat severing limbs and torsos and causing more than 20 deaths. After this horrific accident, which may be followed by lawsuits totaling in the billions, wouldn't it be common sense to implements safety belts? Whoever said that common sense should be called uncommon sense was a wise man indeed.

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