He noted that another offering for special needs passengers is
set to debut this month or March. Rick Smith of SynTec Seating Solutions said the M2K inte-
grated child seat with a five-point restraint system is currently available on all Tomas Built Buses. “Te five-point harness and simple, one-pull adjustment ensures the child is easily secured in a safe environment. Te modular child seat can be easily re- moved thanks to the exclusive M2K zip-off back,” said Smith. “Te bottom cushion also has a zipper to allow for the foam to be removed, cleaned, dried and replaced in case of accidents.” Aaron Harris of BESI Inc. said the company is continuously
working on new child securement systems and ideas. “We crash test every product that we sell — safety vests,
The STAR child seat features an adjuster that slides up and down to accommodate the child’s height instead of fixed height slots.
then a year or two down the road, convert it to any of the other three by adding hardware to it and not throwing away any parts. It’s taking safety one step further,” Knapp said. “When you set the seats across from each other in a 12-inch aisle, it gives you 15 inches of hip space. We’ve done this because drivers are a lot larger than students, and students are getting larger, so they need more room for emergency egress.”
over-the-shoulder harnesses and the Protech series. We do not custom make securements for that reason,” he explained. Harris said BESI’s flagship product, the Protech 3, was designed
to replace a car seat in a school bus because a traditional car seat is not designed for the yellow bus. “It is the only system on the market that I know of which can
hold a child from 25 pounds all the way up to 90,” he contin- ued. “Our BR and Universal series of vests are normally what we recommend for little escape artists or ‘Houdinis.’ Te problem is that no one can make an inescapable vest for the simple reason that you have to think about how you’re going to get the child out in the case of an emergency.” n
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