NTSB safety recommendations News

Safety Agency Recommends Seat Belts, Automatic Brakes on School Buses

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended for the first time that all new school buses in the U.S. be equipped with lap and shoulder belts. The NTSB also voted to recommend that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration …

NTSB Blames Misaligned Switch for Iowa Train Crash

A misaligned switch leading into an Iowa rail yard caused a freight train to slam into some empty train cars, killing the conductor and engineer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. The collision happened about 2 a.m. on July …