School bus standards passed by watchdog
Source: Xinhua |
January 14, 2012, Saturday
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TWO mandatory safety standards for school buses passed a review by a national industry committee, China's industrial watchdog said yesterday.
This follows a string of recent accidents that aroused public fury.
Approval will be significant for improving school bus safety, said an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The standards cover school buses for preschoolers above the age of three and children who are receiving nine-year compulsory education, officials said.
One standard stipulates technological safety requirements for school buses, while the other lays out requirements for the size and quality of school bus seats, he said.
The two documents were passed by the National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization as national mandatory standards and have yet to be formally adopted.
The government began to seek public opinions on four drafts of safety standards for school buses last month, after school bus safety came under criticism following a series of deadly accidents.
A school bus overturned and fell into a ditch on December 12 last year in east China's Jiangsu Province, killing 15 people.
An initial probe indicated that the bus's driver was driving too fast and did not react correctly while trying to avoid a pedicab traveling in the opposite direction.
This follows a string of recent accidents that aroused public fury.
Approval will be significant for improving school bus safety, said an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The standards cover school buses for preschoolers above the age of three and children who are receiving nine-year compulsory education, officials said.
One standard stipulates technological safety requirements for school buses, while the other lays out requirements for the size and quality of school bus seats, he said.
The two documents were passed by the National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization as national mandatory standards and have yet to be formally adopted.
The government began to seek public opinions on four drafts of safety standards for school buses last month, after school bus safety came under criticism following a series of deadly accidents.
A school bus overturned and fell into a ditch on December 12 last year in east China's Jiangsu Province, killing 15 people.
An initial probe indicated that the bus's driver was driving too fast and did not react correctly while trying to avoid a pedicab traveling in the opposite direction.
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