In a first, one company is making three-point seatbelts standard on all school buses

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The vast majority of school buses have no seatbelts and none have airbags for the drivers.

On any given school day, more than 25 million kids ride a school bus, one of the safest vehicles on the road — with one exception: the vast majority of those buses have no seatbelts.Videos of accidents involving school buses show kids bouncing around like sneakers in a dryer, and it's not just the students who are in danger.

The crash dummies inside wearing three-point seat belts barely moved, while the unbelted dummies were sent flying.Over one 10-year period, 1,110 people were killed in school bus crashes, an average of 111 people a year. As a result, eight states have laws on the books requiring new school buses to have seat belts.

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