persuasive-buses with seatbelts

 safety, emergency

making use of resources, being advantaged

education

30MIN

Seatbelts are essential for any road trip where the passengers must be assured that they can ride safe. And with buses being the most accident-prone, largest capacity vehicle, it makes sense that they deserve them the most. Protecting our community's safety is not only important, but so is using money and resources for the better and being able to educate old and young on the importance of using seatbelts anywhere, everywhere. Hundreds of lives could be saved with enforcing more seatbelts on buses. Do you want to be the cause of such deaths?

When travelling anywhere on the road, safety is essential. It's one thing to drive safe, however we cannot always prevent drunk drivers or slippery roads. Even in such a meticulous, careful society we still have kids flying out of cars and brain injuries caused by heads smashing against windows. In buses there are even more accidents because of the large space and numerous amount of people-not to mention the clumsy, long shape they take. To think that a death could be prevented with a mere seatbelt. It's true! No matter how hard you can hold onto chairs or armrests, they will never provide as much protection and support as a seatbelt.

Some might say that putting seatbelts on buses wastes money. But any decision we make in today's society costs money-and if we do spend some, it's for the better that we're investing in our safety. We cannot scrimp and save for luxurious houses we don't need if the money could be spent on something crucial for road safety. Think about suffering third world countries. In busy, traffic jammed streets, you'd think people there would spend money on seatbelts if it was the first thing they could afford. If we can afford seatbelts, why not take advantage of that? Wouldn't you prioritise others' lives over pieces of paper with dollar signs?

Another good use of seatbelts we get is the education that it offers. This may not be the sort of thing you learn in the classroom, but as you've seen how imperative it is that we wear them for our safety implementing them into our daily lives reminds us how we should practice this protection and always wear a seatbelt. Children who refuse to wear a seatbelt will eventually pipe down when they see that they have to wear one even on buses. Teenagers who practice wearing seatbelts could avoid heavily damaging their lives and futures with one night drive without them on. Responsibility and security on the street is the most important thing we can learn, and that's not possible without the use of seatbelts.

Hundreds, even thousands of people die every year due to not wearing seatbelts on buses. Lives wasted. Families destroyed. Futures torn apart at the hands of reckless drivers and road accidents. We need to utilise the resources we have for these life-saving devices, as we can afford them. Be grateful for the power to wear seatbelts on buses if you can. Be grateful for lives saved by implementing them. Be grateful for the good life skills and responsibility you can pass on to future generations. After all, life is precious!