Safer school buses for children by Zuzana Blazeckova

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters proposed on Monday new rules relate to safety of children in school buses. She wants to expand the use of shoulder belts, improve buckling up while riding, and assure safeness for all students go to school by school buses. Furthermore she brought in the project to increase the height of seat backs on all school buses from 20 inches to 24 inches. It should help to protect also taller passengers in accident, because they are more likely to flying over the seats with short backs. Peters proposed another claim but for short school buses too. That is, to start with using shoulder straps. However, these changes could be implemented as early as next year. Peters system for improving safety in school buses includes very school districts and states to make their own decision how to spend their money and to shield young students to improve safeness wile riding in school buses at the same time. She promised states can use Federal Highway Safety Money to cover the cost of installing school bus seatbelts. This innovation would probably add $10, 000 to the cost of each school bus. Public comments of the suggestion made by Mary E. Peters will be accepted for 60 days.Conclusions of statistics made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say that the majority of injuries happen to passengers in other vehicles than buses. Moreover that every year an average 19 children are killed not exactly inside the bus, but on the contrary by getting on and off the school bus. So it is sometimes bigger risk for parents to let their children run at the bus stop or on the other side, impatiently get out of the bus after school day.

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