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would not be thrown outside of the
vehicle,” he says.
Lo suggests that school bus com-
panies install child car seats with spe-
cially-designed safe-
ty belt to reduce
the risk of death
and injury in a
traffic collision,
“They are like
baby seats for pri-
vate cars. You can
put a few on your Lo Kok-keung
bus – which means you do not need
extra installation.”

Stepping up to safety
Safety measures on non-fran-
According to the Transport Department, 5,212 school buses have registered with chised buses like school buses have
license eligible to provide student service by January 2019 been widely discussed following a se-
rious traffic accident in February last
year. A KMB bus flipped onto its side
in Tai Po with 19 people killed.
In January this year, an independ-
ent review committee made 45 rec-
ommendations for franchised bus op-
erations in the city, which included:
providing funding for franchised bus
operators to promote the use of new
safety technology and requiring buses
to provide real-time alerts of exces-
sive speeding.
Dr Hung Wing-tat, a long-time
member of the Hong Kong Society of
Transportation Studies, believes simi-
lar practices should be introduced to
non-franchised buses that would ride
Photo courtesy of Lam Chi-ping on highway with speed limit above 70
kilometres per hour. “Every vehicle
on the highway, especially those car-
rying passengers, needs to rein-

Poor driving behaviour can force their safety apparatus.”
“There are some safety
only be uprooted only if drivers devices available in the
market that can reveal if a
driver gets exhausted, doz-
are reminded of their problems es off, drives too close to a
whenever they are spotted den acceleration and halt.” He
vehicle in front or has sud-

Hung Wing-tat suggests school bus compa-