Seat Belt

CLSA nails custard to the wall for tongue-in-cheek report

7 Feb 2013

Whither the slither? This and other compelling questions for investors in the Year of the Snake are raised and answered in CLSA's 19th Fung Shui Index.

Government must ensure all school buses in Hong Kong have seat belts

27 Nov 2011

Regarding the Gansu school bus tragedy, Kelvin Chan noted the need for mainland authorities to enact and enforce appropriate school bus safety regulations. We need to do this in Hong Kong, too...

Shenzhen park accident

5 Jul 2010

Six people were killed and nine injured on an amusement park ride in Shenzhen last week.

Seat belt and car phone laws are useless if they're not enforced

2 Feb 2010

At my home in Pok Fu Lam there is a steady stream of school minibuses, four times a day. Many are fitted with child seat belts but I am lucky if I see one child in each bus using them. Why should...

Need to put brakes on speeding drivers

15 Sep 2009

The installation of seatbelts and the implementation of a speed limit on mini buses are important measures to ensure passengers' safety. But I think it's even more important to change the drivers...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Speed limiters eyed for all minibuses by 2011

The Transport Department aims to have all minibuses fitted with speed controllers by the end of next year by making their installation a requirement for issuing a vehicle licence.

220 summonses for failure to belt up on minibuses

More than 260 summonses and verbal warnings were issued to public light-bus passengers found not wearing seat belts during a special 24-hour police operation that ended yesterday morning.

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Should seatbelts be mandatory on all forms of transport?

Each week our two teenagers debate a hot topic. This week ...

Dennis Wu, 17, St Joseph's College

Action urged on bus seat belts

Passengers should not be allowed to sit in the front seats on the top deck of double-decker buses that are too old to be fitted with seat belts, a political party said yesterday.

Talkback

What do you feel about the ban on triad symbols?

I almost fell off my chair on learning of the arrest of Doug Young (of G.O.D.) over the sale of T-shirts that allegedly carried a...

Officials back seat belts for upper rows on buses

The government supports the fitting of safety belts in the front-row seats on the upper level of most double-decker buses, but wearing them will not be mandatory.