It's National School Bus Safety Week, and Middle Georgia residents are weighing in after the opening of a new bus safety manufacturing facility in Macon. In partnership with Blue Bird, IMMI opened a ...
Three years ago, the federal government issued several new requirements related to school bus occupant protection. Two of the key provisions in the final rule, from the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Every large charter bus built after November of 2016 must have seat belts. It's required by federal law. But in an absurd twist, no one's required to use them. So, often, children and adults travel by ...
(NEXSTAR) — Students have returned to school, and back onboard those bright yellow buses with their rows and rows of high-backed seats. While they cart around your children, school buses frequently ...
ALBANY — While seat belts have become common in large charter buses such as the one involved in the Sept. 21 fatal crash involving Farmingdale High School band members, few passengers use them and no ...
When Rudy Breglia heard about the fatal crash of a school bus in his home state of Ohio last week, he says he felt sick. But he wasn't surprised. Breglia has been on a quest for years to get seat ...
Impassioned debates about safety tend to follow every deadly wreck involving a school bus — such as Thursday’s tragedy in Morris County, New Jersey. A bus collided with a dump truck and flipped, ...
Other than Texas, only eight states have a law mandating seat belts on school buses. Texas' 2017 law mandates that all newly purchased school buses built after 2018 have three-point safety restraints, ...
The following is the Jackson Citizen Patriot's editorial for November 27: It makes sense that children riding on school buses would be safer wearing seat belts. Children certainly should do so in cars ...