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Why are School Buses Yellow and Why Dont They Have Seatbelts (2016x25)
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An estimated twenty-six million students in the United States alone are transported to school every school day via bus—over half the student population in the country. While school buses in countries outside of North America usually look like any other buses, North American school buses are distinctive for their yellow colour.
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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_buses_in_North_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_yellow
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/why-are-school-buses-yellow-a-teachers-college-professor-said-so/
http://www.watershedpost.com/2013/why-are-school-buses-yellow-thank-stamfords-own-frank-cyr
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-are-school-buses-yellow/
http://www.schoolbusdriver.org/history.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss1/record2101.36.html
http://michigan.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-5237_47875-174545--,00.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1289/why-are-there-no-seatbelts-on-school-buses
http://www.americanschoolbuscouncil.org/school-bus-information-and-statistics/faq/why-dont-school-buses-have-seat-belts
http://www.nhtsa.gov/Research/Crashworthiness/School+Bus+Crashworthiness+Research
http://publictransport.about.com/od/Transit_Safety/a/Why-Don-T-Buses-Have-Seatbelts.htm