Security - USA - Seat belts in school buses?
A House panel considers whether installing seat belts in school buses -- at $8,000 to $10,000 per bus -- would protect childrenTopeka,Wichita,KNS,USA -TopekaEagle, by BRENT D. WISTROM -Feb. 15, 2006: -- Nancy Stauffer's voice fell apart Tuesday as she told the House Transportation Committee "there is no price we can put on the well-being or life of a child"... School districts estimate they would have to spend $67.22 million -- $3.5 million in the Wichita district to comply with the bill... It would cost $8,000 to $10,000 per bus to retrofit each of the state's 5,700 buses. Also, districts would have to buy more buses because bench seats equipped with seat belts could hold only two students instead of three... Treaster drafted the bill, but he has already suggested changing it to require seat belts only in new buses. That would add about $6,500 to the cost of a new bus. No statewide estimate is available...
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