These days we heard in the news that a school in Bilbao has been the first in Spain and in Europe to place seat belts on their school buses. They are endowed with Kidy bus, the first child seat for approved buses.
Apparently it was the school's own parents who called the company Kify Froh to develop a retention system that could be easily placed on school buses for their children to travel safely.
So it was. They have developed a pioneering product like Kidy bus, a special seat with safety devices for children aged 3 to 12 years (or up to 1.20 m of statues and 40 kilos) with five anchor points.
The child is held with two strips by the shoulders, two by the stomach and both come together to attach to the central axis between the legs, just like the car safety seats.
The seat, of course, should be thought to be removed when those who travel by bus are not children, so a removable system has been created. It is a flexible seat that is fixed to the bus by wide strips and thus is firm to keep the child safe in case of braking or overturning.
As of October 2007, the regulations oblige all school buses to wear a seat belt, but unfortunately not all of them do so, and the safety with the belt is not the same as with this type of seat.
As a mother, I am concerned that children do not go completely safe when they come and go from school or on an excursion. Of course, providing a bus with a system like Kidy bus involves money (each seat costs 199 euros) and have someone who buckles and unbuckles the children's belts when they get on and off. But safety comes first.
Here you have a video of the product.
