Seating laws put to the test
Seating laws put to the test
Head teacher Dr Chris Howard has more than a professional interest in the issue of school bus transport.
His daughter Bethan was a passenger on the bus which crashed in Ystradowen in December 2002, killing Stuart, and injuring Coach purses30 others, including her.
He has joined Stuart’s Campaign – parents fighting to improve safety standards on school transport, including scrapping the so-called three-for-two rule.
The rules allows three schoolchildren aged 14 or under to sit on a seat designed for two adults.
Using a double-decker bus with a seating capacity for 76 adults, 131 pupils at Lewis Pengam School demonstrated the difference it makes when the three-for-two rule was applied.
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“The seats become desperately overcrowded.
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“The law does need changing. It’s the regulations being set at this ridiculously low level which allow councils to say legally we only have to provide this level [of service].”
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