School Bus Seat Belts Costly & Impractical: Transport Dep’t

Transport Canada is mandating new safety regulations on school vans following a 2008 accident that killed eight people in New Brunswick. However regulators stopped short of requiring seat belts in all vehicles that transport schoolchildren, saying the measure would be expensive and impractical: ‘It would significantly increase the cost of school buses’.

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