Issues

U.S. reviewing seat belts on school buses

February 11, 2015

Arlington, Va. — The new head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing the government’s longtime opposition to mandating safety belts on school buses and is looking at the issue on commercial buses.

In a Detroit News interview after an event on school bus safety at an elementary school here, NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind said he has convened a group within the agency to study the issue that NHTSA has been reviewing since 1977.

Hyundai Agrees to Pay $17.35 Million Fine for Failing to Report Brake Defect in Timely Manner

February 10, 2015