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Speculation is they might have been alive if there had been seat belts and they had been strapped? >> one former ntsb official told me they looked at the idea of seat belts on trains but are you going to do a lap belt, a shoulder harness? when you do that, it's not a matter of just installing the seat belt itself. a lot of times you've got to retrofit the entire seat and sometimes the floor itself to make sure that it will hold up. the ntsb officials said there wasn't the data to support that sort of overall and he said when you're talking about commuter trains where people are getting on and ...