Safety Advisories
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NASDPTS
Position Paper: The National Association of State Directors
of Pupil Transportation Services opposes the use of vans
that do not comply with federal school bus safety standards.
The association explains its views in this Position Paper
titled "Passenger Vans Used as School Buses.
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GuideOne
Insurance: 15-Passenger Van Resource Page
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- 15-Passenger
Vans: Legal but Lethal. An excellent summary of the risks
associated with 15-passenger vans by the Safetyforum.org,
published to the World Wide Web by the Hogan Law Office, P.C.of
Birmingham, Alabama. This law office has represented several
plaintiffs in lawsuits stemming from fatal accidents involving
the use of these vehicles.
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- Risk
Management Briefing: The 15-Passenger Van Controversy
A review of the controversey surrounding the use of 15-passenger
vans. The article appears on the website of the OutdoorEd.com,
an association that provides online articles on a range of
outdoor education and experiential education topics. Interest
in the controversey springs fromthe fact that many vans are
use in outdoor adverture activities.
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- (June
13, 2002) Illinois
State Board of Education State education agency issues
a Fact Sheet about 11-15 passenger vans, lays out risks to
school districts if they use these vehicles in their fleets.
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- A discussion
of "15
Passenger Van Stability Hazards" by Strategic Safety,
LLC. This private company specializes in motor vehicle issues
and provides research, investigation, analysis, and education
on safety issues.
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- University
of Lethbridge (B.C., Canada) provides a series of Frequently
Asked Questions about the use of 15-passenger vans. Discusses
safety, legal and insurance considerations before renting
one of these vans for use in British Columbia.
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- 15-Passenger
vans are not school buses!
By James Kraemer. From the 2safeschool.org web site, the author
asks why schools and other transportation providers use vans
and undertained drivers to transport children when school
buses are much safer?
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- American
Camping Association
(May 2002) The national association published CampLine on
its web site. It offers an update on 15-passenger vans. The
ACA discusses NHTSA's concerns about vans including a brief
review of pertinent federal regulations, safety concerns with
vans, pending legislative developments (i.e. H.R. 3296), and
offers more than a dozen tips of what camps and campgrounds
can do to reduce the risk posed to campers by 15-passenger
vans.
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- ATU
Position Statement As
part of its Moving America Safely Legislative Agenda for
2001, the Amalgamated Transit Union supports Federal incentives
for states to prohibit the use of vans and minivans that do
not meet Federal safety standards for school buses to transport
children to and from school and school-related activities.
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- Shortly
after the case involving the fatality of six-year-old Jacob
Strebler was settled in the plaintiffs favor, the insurers
for the Independent Schools Association of the Central States
issued a memo to members about the case. In the memo, written
by Cory & Associates, an independent insurance broker
for the ISACS, author Peter Schindel cautions member schools,
"This case has a definite adverse impact on a school's liability
when using 15-passenger vans." Further, he writes, "Schools
should avoid using these vehicles if possible and practical."
Click here to read
this important statement from an independent insurance broker.
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- Safety
Center of the United States Air Force issues a "15
Passenger Van Safety Advisory" to Air Force personnel,
following publication of Consumer Advisory by NHTSA.
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- NAAD on Vans: Comment to the docket by the National
Association of Automobile Dealers about vans as school buses.
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- Ensuring the Safety of Our Children:
12/17/99 A letter to the Governor of Arkansas by U.S. Senators
John McCain and Ernest F. Hollins, and Jim Hall, chairman
of the National Transportation Safety Board.
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- Statement
by Rep. Mark Udall
(R-CO) upon introduction of proposed legislation to close
a loophole in federal law that allows schools to purchase
15 passenger non-conforming vans, August 30, 2001
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