Safe stops
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- April
- 24
Today we had an editorial about bus safety, and new technology — a motion-activated camera afixed to buses — designed to catch motorists passing school buses picking up or dropping off passengers. Why would such a techno-whiz be needed? Because drivers don’t wait. They pass school buses that have their stop signs out and their red lights blinking.
It happens frequently. Peter Brockmann, Clarkstown schools transportation director,
told me that districts know their “hot spots,” as he calls areas where drivers tend to sneak past stopped buses. Often they are major commuter corridors — in his district that’s routes 304 and 303 — rather than residential roads.
Just the combination of school buses and regular traffic ups the risk, even when appears everyone behind the wheel is following the rules. Just this week, a Nyack Middle School seventh-grader was hurt when she ran into a car trying to catch her bus.
As Jack Coxen, Brewster’s transportation supervisor, said, “Outside the buses is where they’re (students) most unsafe.”
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on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 1:50 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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