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Seatbelts Are Important For Minibus Insurance
While you may be following all rules and regulations with regard to road safety, vehicle maintenance, driver training and so on in order to get the best minibus insurance deal for your vehicles, smaller aspects like the kind of seatbelts you are using in the minibus may slip your attention and nullify all the care you have been taking.
The Road Vehicles Act of1986 has put in place certain regulations pertaining to the use and type of seatbelts that need to be fitted in minibuses. It is common knowledge that appropriate seatbelts can go a long way in preventing major injuries to the passengers should the vehicle have to break suddenly or should it collide against something. But equally important is the manner in which they are fitted, their maintenance and the frequency with which they are being used which insurance service providers would consider when fixing the premium.
It has often been observed that passengers are lax about making use of the seatbelts that are provided in minibuses. They are careful about the usage when they travel in cars but tend to relax when travelling in bigger vehicles. Perhaps it has got to do with the psychological feeling that they are much safer in a bigger vehicle. This has led to many minibuses not having the right seatbelts in place or passengers at times finding it difficult to use them due to long periods of non use.
The requirement of seatbelts vary as per the number of years a particular vehicle has spent on the road, the kind of seats it has, the number of passengers it can comfortably carry and to some extent even on the type of passengers the bus usually has on board. For instance, are passengers mainly children or those with some physical disability requiring wheelchair support? On the other hand, the type of licence held by the driver is of no consequence.
As a minibus owner, it is your duty to check the condition of seatbelts regularly and not wait for the annual MOT test. This is important since regular use of the seatbelts would invariably lead to them getting loose, becoming slack and hence would render them useless over a period of time. Not having seatbelts at all in your vehicles is an offence and you along with the driver can be prosecuted. The seat belts and their condition also needs to be viewed in perspective of the condition of the seats themselves, compatibility with the floor of the vehicle or the side wall, the anchorage as well as its smooth sliding or reel mechanism.
Minibus insurance service providers take cognisance of two kinds of seatbelts - the three point and the two point ones. The lap and strap variety is the most popular as they effectively protect the upper body from veering forward in the event of a sudden break or collision and most new minibuses are fitted at the factory itself with such seatbelts. The two point seatbelts are slowly being phased out as they have been ineffective in their restraining power and moreover have been found to lead to injuries due to improper functioning.
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