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“It’s as safe as a car!" countered Mr. (Hiver.
“Safer,” interjected assistant superintendent Robert Chappell.
“It doesn’t make sense to say a station wagon is safe and a van is not,” Mr. Oliver continued, asking if modifications could be made to the van to meet the newly enforced state and federal standards.
“There’s nothing we can do with that van,” the superintendent replied. “We can get an approved van, but first we have to have an approved chassis.” Than that shell must go to a body shop to be fitted with school bus seats, special lights, school bus doors, front crossing guards, and other standard school bus equipment, he explained.
I)r. tlangel reported that he’d checked with the board’s legal counsel and confirmed that “If the vehicle gets in a wreck tomorrow, we do have insurance coverage, and we have immunity (from liability) as a governing body. Hut, on the other hand, we’d be putting ourselves in a difficult position (if an accident were to occur).”
“What sticks in my craw is that this (prohibition against transporting students in vans) was going to be submitted as legislation, but it must not have had backing in the (iencral Assembly, so
See VAN, p. 16
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