RULES * Canada - New standards proposed for 15-passenger vans
Don Mills,Ontario,Canada -Canwest News Service, by Linda Nguyen -August 13, 2008: -- The Canadian Standards Association has published new voluntary safety guidelines for 15-passenger vans, seven months after seven high school basketball players and a teacher were killed in a van crash in Bathurst, N.B.... The new standards, released Wednesday, were designed to apply to a proposed category of multi-functional vehicles... Though not school buses, this new class of vehicle would be used to transport groups of school-aged children on field trips, sporting events and extracurricular activities... The standards suggests that these vehicles be constructed to meet school bus guidelines in terms of their joint strength, crashworthiness, rollover protection, emergency exits and compartmentalization... Other safety standards commonly found on school buses such as warning lamps or stop arms were not included in the standards...
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