{"id":2989,"date":"2014-01-27T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2014-01-26T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T14:25:20","slug":"new-buses-traveling-cities-must-equipped-seatbelts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/new-buses-traveling-cities-must-equipped-seatbelts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Buses Traveling between Cities Must be Equipped with Seatbelts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Under a federal rule issued by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/\">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) <\/a>that was passed on Nov. 21, 2013, new tour buses and buses that provide services between cities must be equipped with seatbelts.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This new federal rule goes into effect beginning in November 2016.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This safety measure was initiated by accident investigators.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The movement to require safety belts on buses has been an ongoing battle for more than 50 years.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Beginning in November 2016, all new motor coaches and some other large buses must be manufactured with seatbelts, which includes a 3-point lap-shoulder belt.<span>\u00a0\u00a0U<\/span>nfortunately, this federal rule doesn\u2019t apply to school buses or public city transit buses.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It seems odd that it wouldn\u2019t provide for the safety of children as well as adults on public buses.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/new-buses-traveling-cities-must-equipped-seatbelts-2\/#more-2989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a federal rule issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that was passed on Nov. 21, 2013, new tour buses and buses that provide services between cities must be equipped with seatbelts.\u00a0 This new federal rule goes into effect beginning in November 2016.\u00a0 This safety measure was initiated by accident investigators.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus-accidents","category-federal-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Buses Traveling between Cities Must be Equipped with Seatbelts &#8212; 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