Recent Safety Issues
Recent activity by the independent transport safety regulator, Transport Safety Victoria, has raised serious concerns about the safety of the Victorian bus fleet. Changes made by the Bus Safety Act 2009 and the Bus Safety Regulations 2010 have required mandatory reporting of the results of annual bus safety inspections since February 2011. The current figures show that over a quarter of the State's buses are unsafe. Over the five month period to July 2011, 28 percent of 13 plus seat buses failed their annual bus safety inspection. The head of Transport Safety Victoria, Alan Osborne, described the results as "unsettling" and called for everyone involved to shoulder their fair share of responsibility.
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