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Newsby Nicole SchlosserJanuary 11, 2016

Bill would allow statement from school bus drivers, aides on stop-arm runners

Indiana Senate Bill 326 would let school bus drivers and monitors provide a statement after witnessing a motorist commit the misdemeanor of illegally passing a school bus.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 11, 2016

Teen struck while walking to school bus

The Massachusetts motorist didn’t see the boy walking down the road, the school bus or its flashing red lights because he had not scraped the frost and ice from his windshield. The boy is recovering from a concussion and minor injuries.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonJanuary 8, 2016

NAPT, NSTA respond to NHTSA seat belt statement

The two school transportation associations jointly write to NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind to express their concerns about his agency’s new stance on school bus seat belts.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2016

Texas district launches stop-arm camera program

Austin Independent School District partners with American Traffic Solutions to install stop-arm cameras on its school buses. For the first 30 days, the district’s police department will issue warnings to motorists who illegally pass a school bus.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2016

Kentucky school bus involved in fatal collision

A motorist crossed the center line of the highway and struck a school bus head-on. The motorist was pronounced dead at the scene and the bus driver, student and teacher’s aide aboard the bus were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2016

Washington district installs GPS on school buses

Kent School District, a recipient of the annual Don Carnahan Memorial Grant, will use the $50,000 to install Zonar GPS tracking devices on all of its buses.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2016

First Student names 1st student art contest winner

For its new student artwork contest, the school transportation provider will award a total of $12,000 this year to schools with winning entries.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 6, 2016

School bus collides with truck, crashes into home

A Texas school bus driver disobeyed a stop sign, collided with a truck, and then slammed into a house, police said. The students aboard and the two women in the home were not seriously harmed, but the driver of the truck was taken to the hospital.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonJanuary 6, 2016

Sinkholes snag 2 school buses

In Maryland, the rear wheels of a Baltimore County Public Schools bus drop into a sinkhole on a road where a water main broke. A similar incident occurs the same morning in Michigan.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 5, 2016

Pedestrian fatally struck by school bus mirror

Steven C. Coons of Arkansas was walking “partially in the lane” of the highway the school bus was traveling on when the mirror on the bus hit him. No students were on board the bus at the time.

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