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In wake of fatal Hays CISD crash, Austin ISD reassures families all its buses have seat belts

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Austin ISD is one of just a four entities in the entire state that took advantage of a Texas Education Agency grant program over a decade ago to get seat belts into school buses.

All of Austin ISD’s 551 school buses have seat belts, the district's executive director of transportation and vehicle services said.

Hafezizadeh said AISD buses are replaced every 12 years or every 250,000 miles, whichever comes first. He said all new buses include lap and shoulder, or three-point, seat belts.The bus was carrying 44 pre-K students and 11 adults back from a field trip when a concrete truck veered into its lane and hit it, causing the bus to roll over. Five-year-oldrequires school districts to buy buses with lap and shoulder seat belts.

“After that we decided any new buses that we purchased be equipped with the lap-shoulder belt,” Hafezizadeh said.

 

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