AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a safety recommendation urging the state of Texas and the Leander Independent School District to tighten the use of seatbelts after a school bus crash on Nameless Road on Aug. 13 injured more than sixteen children and the driver.

Investigators discovered that many children on that bus were not wearing seatbelts and were displaced when the bus rolled over. NTSB said the school bus was equipped with passenger lap and shoulder belts, and integrated five-point child-restraint harnesses, but few passengers were wearing them.

The district’s website states that Leander ISD buses are equipped with 3-point seatbelts and they must be worn under state law.

However, NTSB investigators said the district “did not ta

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