Blue Bird Launches Industry-1st Standardization of Seat Belts, Driver Air Bag and Safety Features

“For nearly a century, our children’s safety has been our business. We proudly carry millions of school children every year, the most precious cargo in the world,” said Britton Smith, president of Blue Bird Corporation. “Today we raise the bar even higher for student transportation by announcing the most comprehensive safety upgrades to our school buses in our history.”
For the first time in student transportation history, new Blue Bird buses will be equipped with three-point seat belts as standard protection for all student passengers. As an additional industry first, Blue Bird will safeguard school bus drivers with the introduction of 4Front, a steering wheel deployed air bag. Blue Bird teamed up with IMMI to develop these industry-leading safety enhancements in student transportation.
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[@KenmareVintageVehicles]

It all comes with a huge price tag. When your competitor offers the same size bus without seatbelts for $15,000 less, guess who’s going to be rewarded the bid?

[@KathYoder5256]

I drive a 2024 Bluebird propane. I do really like this bus a lot, but I wish you would spend more time in quality control first. There have been a lot of things for warranty. Seatbelts would be nice to keep the children in their seats, BUT.... In case of an accident or fire with all of my littles panicking, how in the world am I gonna get them all out of their seatbelts in split seconds?! I am just one person. And what if I'm unconscious.....

[@KillaninjaFC]

Adults don't need to do everything for kids. The bigger kids can be taught how to help the younger ones. I always liked fire drill training when I was a kid, make the bus drill part of fire drill training day

[@johnnieadams4574]

This is my biggest concern and in reality when you have a boss full of younger kids even the older of the young kids sometimes panic and be too busy worrying about getting themselves off I have students that will literally get off the bus at their stop and leave their siblings on the bus sleeping without a thought or care in the world so I can’t even imagine if a fire breaks out what would happen

[@mikeschulte4271]

I like the exit window handle design on ur buses looks super sleek and modern

[@Quandaledingle23102]

I am OBSESSED with school busses

[@mrmaddocs68752]

Same

[@kagome122885]

Blue Bird is winning the "School Bus Wars!"

[@orangeapple681]

The first bus was invented in 1925. Why did it take almost 100 years to put seatbelts in it?

[@GLOATINGMAPLE01]

will the 2027 or 2028 model years have something that says 100th anniversary

[@RyanWhitman-w1f]

Bluebird, future green light for driver digital 3 point safety harness for love of life

[@VaioCorporation]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Aschoolbusandsimulatorfan2219]

This is helpful to my school district, Thank u.

[@72launchpad]

Lagging well behind modern standards ...... the iPhone of busses!!!

[@wantsanewvehicle]

Great! But there needs to be some kind of sensor on each one so the driver knows if they are not being worn. The district I drive for has some buses that have seat belts- nobody uses them. The kids trip over them and hit each other with them. There is absolutely no way for the driver to know if they are actually being used or not. But.. whatever the sensor is or whatever would have to actually prevent the bus from being moved if the seatbelts were not buckled. The company I drive for does not stand behind the drivers. The drivers are not allowed to do anything at all other than drive the bus. I moved a student's seat this year and I (the bus driver) got in trouble for this. I don't know how this would work though, because the kids could just buckle them and not actually wear them or something.. I dunno.

[@javimendez485]

I like your buses. I remember when travel with my family and my friends in Blue Bird buses. 🤩👏🏼🚍