The Nation - News from June 10, 1985
A top federal safety official, citing a string of deadly accidents involving older buses used by churches and schools, called for an intensified effort to improve the safety of the aging fleet. James E. Burnett Jr., chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said buses manufactured before April, 1977, do not have to meet some federal crash standards. “Some of these older buses are safety inadequate,” Burnett said in a Washington interview.
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