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Roof regs: reen light
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BRITAIN is going ahead with regulations for strengthening coach roofs without waiting for the EEC.
Draft regulations for strengthening the roofs had been forwarded to the EEC in 1977, but Europe had not made very fast progress and Bri was going to proceed ir pendently, said Under Se tary for Transport J Horam in the Commons week.
He added that there wd be consultations later this on individual requirement! higher braking standards.' are close to making prog on that score."
However, implementa. had to follow industry act which inevitably took s( time. In this instance it w( inevitably take a coupld years before coaches coull produced to the new brai standards.
Answering a question f Gwilym Roberts (Lab Cannock), Mr Horam said in 1977 occupants of pt service vehicles suffered deaths and 1,269 seriow juries. Any casualty rate of course, a matter for I cern, but these figi represented a fatality rat only one-sixth of that for and taxi passengers.
Mr Roberts urged actio roofs and brakes, and supported by Peter Ten Morris (Labour, Leomim who said that the industry to be congratulated on considerable fall in accid rates over the past decack thought that the figure fallen from 17,000 to al 12,000.
But when accidents 1 pened they were horreni and often involved chil, and old people.