Brantford, Ont. father calls for safety changes after son gets dragged by school bus
The bus driver took off, dragging William several feet, with Derek and his older son running and screaming behind the bus. The driver — alerted by his screams, Tappen says — eventually stopped.“Terrified,” said Tappen, when asked what was going through his mind in the moment. “I honestly thought I was going to have to get an ambulance for him and we were going to end up in the hospital because all I could see was him sliding out from the bottom of the door and ending up underneath the wheels.
Tappen says he thinks simple safety mechanisms built into the doors could’ve made this near-tragedy completely preventable. “Now they’ve switched over to a push-button system instead of the old-school long bars that they had to physically open and close, so they don’t have to check the door anymore which I think is a big issue with that,” says Tappen.
Global News reached out to the bus company, Voyago, which owns the bus involved in the incident for comment, but did not hear back before broadcast deadline.“We’ve got censors for our car doors, for garage doors, elevators, you know — half the stuff you can put your arm underneath and it’ll stop so you don’t get pinched,” said Tappen.
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