COLUMBUS — Top lawmakers in the state are speaking out about bus safety.
Just this week, five students and the driver got hurt in a school bus crash south of Akron.
Last month, 11-year-old Aiden Clark died when a car hit his school bus near Springfield.
His death has spurred action.
Gov. Mike DeWine formed a new state task force that is reviewing bus safety.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown has introduced legislation that would follow the National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendations and require seat belts, stability control and automatic breaking on busses.
News Center 7 asked both elected officials whether there should be a national or state-by-state approach to school bus quality and safety.
“You know what the federal government does -- I’m not there anymore. So we’ll let other people focus on that. I think our obligation that I take very seriously and I know the members of the legislature and I know our working group does, is for us to get it right in Ohio,” DeWine.
“I don’t think you want kids in a school bus from Miamisburg or West Carrollton or from Dayton to drive west and then go into Richmond, Indiana, and be under a different set of rolls. I think we need national rules,” Brown said.
Ohio’s school bus safety task force will publish a report with recommendations in December.