The bus carrying students and teachers of a Budapest secondary school as well as family members hit the pillar of an overpass on the Venice-Verona motorway and caught fire.

The group was returning home from a ski trip.

Kovács told reporters that the cabinet had at its Wednesday meeting assessed information and reviewed ongoing consultations in connection with planned changes to transport regulations in the wake of the accident.

In the online consultation planned to be running for a month, the public’s opinion will be asked about the possibility of prohibiting the circulation of buses carrying students between 11pm and 4am, Kovács said.

They will also be asked about regulations on health requirements for bus drivers with particular focus on sleeping disorders, as well as about technical standard requirements for buses, he said.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.