Lang pushes for school bus seat belts

Posted on December 21, 2016
Lou Lang
Illinois House Deputy Majority Leader Lou Lang
wants Illinois to require school buses be equipped with seat belts for students. (Photo courtesy www.ilga.gov)

By RFD Radio

SPRINGFIELD – State Rep. Lou Lang has seen enough.

After watching a number of students lose their lives in a Chattanooga, Tenn. bus crash, the Skokie Democrat wants to make seat belts on school buses mandatory.

Lang wants new buses to include so called three-point seat belts which secure the lap and shoulder. Six other states have similar requirements.

It would cost up to $10,000 to add the seat belts.

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