The New York Association for Pupil Transportation is calling for state action on proposed laws to increase penalties for passing stopped school buses.
Call to Hike Fines for Passing Stopped School Buses
The New York Association for Pupil Transportation is calling for state action on proposed laws to increase penalties for passing stopped school buses.
The organization found in a study that drivers illegally pass a stopped school bus more than 50,000 times a day. Several children have been killed over the past few years by drivers passing buses illegally, and 75 kids were reported injured by vehicles that had passed their buses between 2002 and 2007.
Assemblyman Peter Rivera has proposed a bill authorizing the placement of video cameras on school buses to record motorist violations, with images to be used as evidence in prosecution of offenders. The bill also makes it a felony of criminally negligent homicide when a child is killed by a driver passing a stopped school bus.
On one condition
I agree on one condition if they fine the bus drivers that put their lights on long before and leave them on long after the child has entered the bus and sit on their cell phones talking or talking to someone on the bus while cars are backed up for a block or more waiting for the driver to wake up and shut off the hazzard lights.
What should take 2 minutes takes 10 when incompetent drivers don’t know how to operate their bus.
Of course our dumb over paid revenue seeking lawmakers that want to insure their over paid saleries are well preserved and won’t consider this as a problem when they sit back and pass bad written laws.
Finally!
A fine that I actually agree with… Hike it as high as possible.
No need to hike
The should just enforce the law to begin with, far too often I see cars whizzing by buses.
Go For It!!
I agree with the hike. The children should be our top priority. Safety is essential.
mama
I have never understood what is so important to people that they can’t take the time to stop a few brief minutes to wait for some children to pass. Obviously they haven’t considered that they could seriously injur or even kill a child! Think, people!