Seat Belts On School Buses?

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's three-year pilot study on
school bus safety is rolling along after hitting a few bumps in its
first two months.
The state is performing an unprecedented $1.4 million study to
see if seat belts would be a benefit for the 25 million kids who
ride buses to and from school nationwide.
Drivers in the study have complained that higher seat backs make
it harder for them to see their passengers and researchers have
found the seats sometimes block out cameras meant to record
students' belt usage.
Some cameras were also mounted badly or positioned in ways that
made them unable to record the student's actions.
University of Alabama civil engineering professor Dan Turner is
heading the study and said the camera problems have been fixed and
researchers have started receiving data from the school systems.

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