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Senate Passes Bill to Require Seat Belts in Vans

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The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill to strengthen the state's seat-belt law two years after a tragic Interstate 65 crash that killed 11 people.  The measure requires seat belts in vans that carry up to 15 passengers.  It now goes to the House for consideration.  The Senate passed the bill Wednesday.  Kentucky now requires seat belts in vehicles transporting up to 10 people.  Republican state Senator Ernie Harris says the 2010 collision between a semi-truck and a 15-passenger van brought the issue to his attention. That crash killed the truck driver and 10 of the 12 people in the van.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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