2008年10月16日星期四

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News

Govt wants kids to buckle up on small school buses (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 12:12 PM CDT

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley sits in a school bus equipped with seat belts with student Bailey Cox at Pine Level Elementary School in Deatsville, Ala., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. Riley and Deputy U.S. Transportation Secretary Thomas Barrett visited the school to announce new measures that require smaller school buses will have to be equipped with lap-and-shoulder seat belts for the first time. The rule was drafted after the deaths of four Alabama students in a school bus crash in 2006. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin)AP - Smaller school buses will have to be equipped with lap-and-shoulder seat belts for the first time under a government rule drafted following the deaths of four Alabama students on a school bus that nose-dived off an overpass.


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