When going on a long bus trip, people often worry about their safety on the way, because little depends on the passenger in an unforeseen situation. However, having made the right choice of a seat on a long-distance bus, you can get an extra chance of a successful trip.
A long-distance bus is a highly comfortable vehicle that transports passengers over long distances.
Differences between long-distance buses from city and suburban buses
The long-distance bus has a number of features:
- long travel time and rare stops;
- you can carry a large amount of luggage in a special compartment under the floor; there are shelves in the cabin for carry-on luggage;
- lack of standing places;
- the seats are equipped with soft armrests, the passenger can take a lying position on the floor thanks to the tilt-adjustable backrest, and a small folding table with a cup holder is often mounted in the seat back;
- at each place there are individual lighting lamps and ventilation curtains;
- the bus can be equipped with a chemical toilet, water dispenser, refrigerator, microwave oven, small bar, wardrobe, air conditioning, sometimes even a shower.
Safe and Dangerous Seats on the Bus
Whether the bus is equipped with a reliable high security system or not, passengers try to choose the right seat on the bus so that the long journey is extremely safe and not particularly tiring.
There are several recommendations for the selection of "safe" seats on the bus, tickets for which are most in demand:
- You should not choose the very last seats on the bus, because this is where a lot of burning gets in. After sitting in the back seats for 3-4 hours, you can get serious poisoning of the body with exhaust gases, moreover, it is very sick there. And with a sharp braking of the bus or an accident, you can easily jump off your seat and fly into the aisle, get injured.
- It is not advisable to occupy the first row of seats located next to the door. If you paid attention to the windshields of regular buses, there are practically none of them.
Small stones often get into the windshield, in rare cases they can pierce it through and injure the passenger.
- The safest places on a long-distance bus are the seats in the center of the passenger compartment, as in an accident, collisions are often head-on, or the impact happens to the rear of the car. The places located on the right side of the passenger compartment, near the aisle, are also safe - they are located farther than others from oncoming traffic.
- Well, the opinion of almost all drivers is the same - the safest place is located behind the driver's seat, because in an unforeseen situation a person will intuitively save himself first of all.
