
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 22, 1991                   TAG: 9103220963
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

AIR BAGS BY 1994 FORCED ON MINIVANS

Federal officials Thursday ordered that minivans, light trucks and other multipurpose passenger vehicles be fitted with front-seat air bags or automatic safety belts starting in 1994 - a regulation already in force for automobiles.

Extending the "passive restraint" safety requirement to the increasingly popular vehicles classified as "light trucks" could save as many as 2,000 lives a year, said Jerry Ralph Curry, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

-Los Angeles Times

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