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n early 2017, New Hampshire’s state legislature mandated a committee be formed to study the feasibility of installing lap-shoulder seat belts on school buses. So, a committee convened. Its findings? Don’t mandate the occupant restraints. Te committee came up with this recommendation by using data. Tey cited nine years of National Highway Transportation Safety


Administration data on school bus related accidents. Tree hundred and one student casualties were pedestrians. Only 51 of these fatalities were student passengers. With simple data, the lawmakers apparently felt enough information was provided to drive the decision of whether or not to move forward with implementation. Regardless of your affinity to three-point seat belts, or lack thereof, the use of data in school districts to make these types of decisions is late to bloom. However, an increasing number now recognize its value and utility, and they are using it more than ever before.


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