Driving along the motorway, at 80 km/h, and glance across the before changing lanes. A cute toddler in a vehicle, matching my speed, a couple of lanes over caught my attention; She was sitting in the front seat, not far from a panoramic windscreen, cradled in her mothers arms… no sign of a seat belt… certainly no child seat… But it was a bus, so that’s both legal and considered ‘safe’. Why? Don’t the laws of physics apply to buses? * The photo is from the compulsory Tibetan (Chinese) bus which took us the last few kilometres to Everest Base...
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