By
The Associated Press
.
Published: Mon, August 11, 2008 - 2:43 pm
NORTHPORT, Ala. (AP) - Alabama has begun a study to determine ifseat belts will make it safer for kids to ride on school buses.
The three-year study being conducted by the University of
Alabama began Monday with students in 10 school systems around the
state boarding buses equipped with seat belts. Gov. Bob Riley
joined kindergarten and first-grade students boarding a school bus
at Northport Elementary School and buckling up to test out the new
safety equipment.
He said Alabama's study would be used in a national effort to
provide the safest trips to school possible.
The pilot study was launched following the 2006 deaths of four
Lee High School students in Huntsville when a school bus went over
a railing on an overpass and crashed.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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