Tour bus passengers will be required by law to buckle up by the end of the year, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) said Tuesday. The MOTC's announcement came one day after six passengers were killed after they were thrown off a tour bus that crashed on a freeway guardrail in Kaohsiung on the early hours of Monday. Current regulations, however, only requires passengers on specific seats such as the shotgun seat to wear seatbelts. The MOTC took up the issue in review of safety rules in the wake of a February tour bus accident that killed 33, Chang said. The MOTC reached an agreement with tour bus operators to make seatbelts compulsory for all passengers above 4 years old on a tour buses traveling on a freeway or a highway.

Source: The China Post September 12, 2017 12:45 UTC