Rossville Consolidated School District, Hamilton Southeastern Schools, and Wa-Nee Community Schools are running buses with illuminated signs to further enhance bus visibility and mitigate illegal passing.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration designates October as national Pedestrian Safety Month and will focus on pupil transportation safety during National School Bus Safety Week.
The New York Association for Pupil Transportation’s statewide coalition reminds motorists that school buses will soon be back on the road and that everyone is required to stop for a stopped school bus.
Let’s seize the opportunity to improve training for students and drivers and help them understand the entire process of crossing safety, including what to do if the danger signal is sounded.
The studies would assess motorists’ knowledge of laws that prohibit passing stopped school buses and stop-arm camera effectiveness.
The minimum fine for illegally passing a stopped school bus on the right side jumps from $200 to $400. Driver’s license suspension time also doubles in some cases.
Bigfork (Mont.) School District 38 is prompted by a recent illegal passing incident that severely injured a 6-year-old student at a nearby district to install the longer stop arms on all its buses.
I was recently reminded of all the ways in which students have used their talents to help improve safety in and around their buses by a news story out of North Carolina.
Hopkins (Minn.) Public Schools is testing Safe Fleet’s Predictive Stop-Arm. It uses radar technology and predictive analytics to notify bus drivers and students when risk is detected outside the bus.
The team of sixth grade students from Wake County (N.C.) Public School System create a flashing sign to alert students, bus drivers, and motorists when a school bus is approaching the bus stop.