
NexTraq Introduces Vehicle Incident Camera System
The company’s Dashcam provides downloadable videos, real-time alerts, and live GPS location services before, during, and after a vehicle incident.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Lawmakers on Monday advanced a school bus safety bill after cutting a provision to let schools buy stop-arm cameras with a share of the fines from illegal passers, and changed a provision that would have made a license suspension mandatory.
The state House of Representatives made revisions to Senate Bill 2, which addresses several school bus safety issues, including to two provisions. One amendment would no longer allow school corporations to use a share of fines collected from stop-arm runners to pay for the cameras. The amendment also changes a requirement for an automatic 90-day driver’s license suspension for violators to allowing a judge to make that decision.
Lawmakers were prompted to make the stop-arm camera amendment due to concerns about third-party agreements, according to The Times. State Rep. Ethan Manning, who submitted the amendment, told the news source that representatives had concerns about third-party agreements for the purchase of stop-arm cameras, and that schools are already allowed to install them.
Senate Bill 2 was prompted by the Oct. 30 stop-arm running incident that killed three students and injured one other.
The company’s Dashcam provides downloadable videos, real-time alerts, and live GPS location services before, during, and after a vehicle incident.
The child is able to safely evacuate the bus before it is engulfed in flames. The fire was apparently caused by a faulty wire near the bus’s engine, a district official said.
Jonathan Gates of Oregon was found not to be under the influence of controlled substances after he was arrested for allegedly driving while impaired in the November crash.
In a parody of the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive,” the transportation team at West Des Moines (Iowa) Community Schools outlines several school bus safety rules while donning their best 70s attire.
The National Association for Pupil Transportation’s concerns address bus driver responsibility and how that might exacerbate driver shortage, and the extra time the systems would add to bus trips.
H4696 would considerably raise penalties for illegally passing school buses and allow the state to overrule decisions made on the locations of some school bus stops.
Foothills Elementary School students demonstrate proper boarding and riding procedures for staying safe on the school bus while on a field trip.
LiveSafe's report includes best practices of early warning threat detection and reporting for K-12 school safety and security programs.
JVCKenwood’s NX-1200 and NX-1300 portable radios operate in two digital protocols — NXDN and DMR — and analog, enabling multi-protocol operation and the capability to transition to digital with mixed-mode operation.
Sherry James of Tennessee, who resigned in October after video showed her using her phone while driving her bus, is arrested for allegedly stealing her old bus and trying to drive her former route, police said.
Alvarado Independent School District installs extended stop arms on four buses that run on routes with multiple illegal passing incidents.
Ivy Corliss, a bus driver with Lewiston (Maine) Public Schools, is collecting the donations after one of her students had no winter gear while waiting for the school bus.
The law mandates at least one question about school bus safety on the written test for general driver’s license applicants and coverage of the topic in the state’s pre-licensing driver's education course.
High school students from Harford County (Md.) Public Schools recreate Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” to encourage their peers to keep safety first and follow the bus driver's rules.
Proposed legislation would require all new school buses purchased in the province after September 2021 to be equipped with seat belts.
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Tom McCarey
| about 8 months agoBelow is information about stop arm cameras that doesn't show up in media or government presentations on the subject. Sincerely, Tom McCarey Member, National Motorists Association. Stop arm cameras will now be found in many Pennsylvania school districts. The districts do not care that 63+% of the child fatalities in School Transportation Related Crashes are caused by the bus drivers running over the kids. Far more safety would be realized to stop those tragedies, but there wouldn’t be any profits in that program. https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/pennsylvania-school-bus-crashes-and-injuries-at-lowest-level-in/article_531bd614-b671-11e6-bb0f-ff1e8d0c5334.html?winst=1524507007210&of=0 Pennsylvania school bus crashes and injuries at lowest level in at least 23 years in 2015 TIM BUCKWALTER | Data Journalist US DOT: No School Bus Passing Fatalities In 2015 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data show no school kids were killed by passing motorists in the most recent year studied. http://thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2017/us-buscrash17.pdf US DOT Report: School Bus Drivers Remain Greatest Danger To Kids In ten years, only four children nationwide have ever been killed by motorists passing a school. http://thenewspaper.com/news/49/4963.asp http://thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2016/us-killerbuses.pdf