MSP launches drive for school bus seatbelts

Changing the law to ensure school buses have seatbelts fitted would improve safety for children across Scotland, an MSP has said.

Gillian Martin, the SNP MSP for Aberdeenshire East, is bringing forward a Member’s Bill at Holyrood which would make having seatbelts a legal requirement on dedicated school transport.

She told MSPS on the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee that there was “currently no legal obligation for seatbelts to be fitted on such transport, despite the well-established safety ben-

0 Gillian Martin: Safety move efits they can bring in a road traffic accident”.

But she said her plans for a Seatbelts on School Transport (Scotland) Bill were intended to address that.

She also said “extensive consultation” had been carried out on the issue.