American National Road Safety Authority (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has insisted that commercial buses are equipped with safety belts. This question attracted the attention of NHTSA, after the participation fatal accident involving passenger buses.

Simultaneously with a similar initiative is not just made by representatives of the National Committee of the United States on transport security (National Transportation Safety Board). The committee shall be entitled only to recommend rules for automakers security, but the real authority to adopt safety standards can only NHTSA.

\u0026quot;I think it is true that the NHTSA for a long time delayed the introduction of this measure\u0026quot;, - said Ron Medford (Ron Medford) Representative manual administration. He added that the safety of commercial carriers now stands in first place in this department.

Medford said that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection prepared for the 2009 requirements for seat belts in buses. The U.S. Congress decided to make all necessary changes in the transportation bill (law, including the basic requirements for avtobezopasnosti) within four years.

According to the Transport Committee of the United States, in 2006, more than 630 million Americans traveled around the country and beyond its borders by bus. Almost the same number of domestic airlines carry annually. \u0026quot;Every year in America, a bus accident claiming the lives of 17 people, and this figure indicates the relative safety of the transport\u0026quot;, - considers the car a lawyer and former head of NHTSA John Kleybruk.

But a series of incidents, such as a bus services with a baseball team at Ohio State University that killed seven people, forced the Congress to provide guidance to road agency, reports The Detroit News. The only problem is that the U.S. government could force truckers to equip buses with safety belts, but still has no right to force passengers to wear.