Why don't passenger trains have seat belts for passengers?

Question

Lets face it we wear seat belts on cars and planes so why not passenger trains, especially high speed ones.

Answer 1

well, planes get bumpy on takeoff and landing and with turbulance so it helps to have a seatbelt for those little bumps along the way.  Cars are more prone to have an accident and if it's high speed a seat belt could save your life.  In a high speed car wreck, there's always severe damage but a car weighs about a ton or two so it's not as heavy as a train.  Now let's look at trains...

Big and heavy.  No turbulance.  If a train crashes, seatbelt or not, you're probably going to die.  Especially if it's a high speed train.  Seatbelts wouldn't do much for a train wreck so it's too expensive to install them.  Only a handfull of people would use them anyway.

Answer 2

you win.... surrender to big brother

Answer 3

We know the answer for cars. For planes it would be turbulence, though when it comes to crashing we are not instructed to put the seat belts on but to put our heads between our legs. For trains and I might add school buses. The issue would to get everyone out as soon as possible. A panicked person may well die due to their inability to undo the seat and get to safety.

Answer 4

Please, don't even get that c**p started.

Answer 5

its not necessary

you are way safer in that train than in your car

and in airplanes it is for turbulence, not for a crash.

and as long as you are asking, why not seat belts on yuor toilet, lots of people have died on the toilet.

Bar stools too, I have seen people fall off bar stools

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