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National board looks at bus safety standards
Local transportation directors urge caution as school year approaches
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Austin Tompkins upholsters a bus seat at the Hall County bus shop as school buses get prepared for the upcoming new school year. Tompkins is part of a crew that readies hundreds of seats in the Hall County School System fleet of buses.
Federal regulators are considering new safety standards and technologies for school buses, while locally all motorists are being urged to practice caution on the roads throughout the upcoming school year. The National Transportation Safety Board met Tuesday to look at findings from two school bus accidents last year involving student deaths in New Jersey and Florida. Both of those accidents occurred at intersections.