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Seat belts may be required on school buses
In the wake of a fatal East Tennessee school bus crash that killed six children and injured 26 others, federal transportation authorities on Tuesday recommended to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that all new school buses be required to be made with seatbelts. The move came during a National Transportation Safety Board meeting in Washington, D.C. after its members reviewed findings of a Special Investigation Report that stemmed from the fatal Nov. 21, 2016 Chattanooga crash and another deadly school bus crash that took place just three weeks prior in Baltimore. In addition to recommending states require new buses be built with lap-shoulder seat belts, the board also issued recommendations that buses be equipped with electronic stability control — computerized technology that improves a vehicle's stability by detecting and reducing skidding. The Chattanooga bus crash involved 37 elementary students and, according to an NTSB report, the children's bus driver Johnthony Walker was speeding and on his cellphone when he lost control of bus 366, swerved across Talley Road, overturned and crashed into a tree
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