A NORTH VANCOUVER 2 school bus contractor claims he has been ‘‘robbed”’ of 60 per cent of his business, at least in part because of fears raised by . last. Winter’s fatal bus accident on Vancouver °

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Nick Hutzkal, who with ‘wife Doreen owns D&N Transportation’ ‘Services Ltd., says inaccurate descriptions of the vehicle involved in that crash as a school bus was the beginning of his problems.

While the media reported that the vehicle involved was a school bus, Hutzkal says it was a coach.

‘‘The purpose of a school bus is safety,’’ says Hutzkal, who says basic structural dif- ferences between a coach and a school bus include heavier construction, safer seats and stronger joints.

School buses are also upgraded every year to meet Federal Government safety standards, Hutzkal says.

D&N Transportation has been accident free since tak- ing over Wyllie and Hill Transportation in 1980. The company employs seven part- time drivers and owns 16 buses, 10 of which are cur- rently operational.

As well as leading to a decline in business, Hutzkal says fears raised by the bus crash have fed to near ac- cidents in North Vancouver.

He says that over-anxious parents have recently been following his buses on their

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