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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

NSW to urgently consider retrofitting and enforcing seatbelts on buses after deadly Hunter Valley crash

NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen speaks to the media
‘If there needs to be more enforcement around [seatbelts] … so something like this doesn’t happen again, we will do it’: NSW transport minister Jo Haylen. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Retrofitting seatbelts to more buses and coaches, and better enforcing laws requiring passengers to wear them, are some measures under urgent consideration in New South Wales in the wake of the Hunter Valley bus crash.

On Tuesday, the Minns Labor government announced it had instructed the NSW bus industry taskforce to look at “a number of current concerns” around safety management, seatbelt use and regulatory arrangements in the state.

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