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Children's deaths spark call for tougher law

By Sun Xiaochen in Beijing and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha (China Daily) Updated: 2014-07-12 05:36

Children's deaths spark call for tougher law

A school mini van is lifted out of a pond in Xiangtan, Hunan province, on Friday. The driver and all 10 passengers in the van, including eight kindergartners, were killed when it fell into the pond on Thursday. [Provided to China Daily]

Experts are calling for legislation and tougher punishment to better regulate school bus services after 11 were killed in an accident in Hunan province.

"China's school bus safety rules are just administrative regulations, lacking the enforcement power that laws have," said Yu Yafeng, an education and school safety professor at Beijing Normal University.

"Without sufficient legal clout and adequate supervision, recommended safety protocols, vehicle quality criteria and driver training rules are usually poorly implemented," Yu added.

Eight of the 11 killed in the Hunan accident were kindergartners. They died when the minivan taking them home on Thursday afternoon fell into a pond, near Changsha, capital of Hunan, police confirmed on Friday.

The eight-seat minivan, hired by Lelewang Kindergarten in Xiangtan, was carrying 11 people, including a driver and two teachers. The wreck, in a remote, sparsely populated mountainous area was not immediately discovered.

"We thought it would be safe with a teacher taking one or two extra kids, even though the van was slightly overloaded," Lelewang Kindergarten teacher Zhou Aicun said on Friday.

An investigation is still underway, but Yuan Dianfan, deputy head of Xiangtan's Yuhu district, said some safety supervision lapses must have played a role.

Since 2010, China has been rocked by several fatal crashes involving modified and often overcrowded vehicles carrying schoolchildren.

Following a series of school bus accidents in 2011, the State Council, China's Cabinet, released school bus regulations in 2012, setting standards on such matters as vehicle safety equipment, driver certification and service qualifications.

But those regulations have not always been strictly heeded, said Wang Jingbo, a public policy professor at China University of Political Science and Law.

"Most of the serious school bus accidents happened in rural areas, where schools or local authorities have limited budgets for vehicle upgrades. More government funds must be provided, or third-party service providers encouraged with preferential policies," Wang said.

In July 2011, a nine-seat minivan carrying 64 kindergarten students and teachers from Zhengning county, Gansu province, crashed with a truck. Twenty-two passengers were killed. Five months later, a modified bus tumbled into ditch, killing 15 of 47 students from Shouxian Primary School in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province.

Both accidents happened in rural areas.

Contact the writers at sunxiaochen@chinadaily.com.cn and fengzhiwei@chinadaily.com.cn

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