Drivers not stopping for school buses

[@ThunderFist1978]

That maximum $1,000 fine should be in place for the first conviction.

[@JV-pu8kx]

Make it wreckless driving. In many states that's either a misdemeanor or, even better, a felony. I.e.: jail time, plus an arrest record that follows the violator.

[@exoressdelivers70]

When the stop arm comes out so should one of those strips police throw on the road with nails to flatten car tires when someone is fleeing from them.

[@houston356]

Slide out spike strips simultaneously with the stop sign 🛑

[@Djevan41598]

People should be arrested for passing stopped school bus

[@ihuman7253]

The stop signs on buses need to stick out further!

[@Ray56z]

When I was young they didn't even have all the lights they now have, and everyone stopped. The difference-the maggots in todays society are spreading rot and people are so busy with their phones while driving, empty minded, or could give a flying fuck about the law because of all the lefty maggots and their bullshit.

[@zachariaholmsted786]

All the way across the street blocking cars

[@davidjohnson1543]

As a retired Police officer, I've written several dozen tickets for this moving violations. Most claim they didn't see the bus and/or the red lights. Laws are only as good as the enforcement of those laws.

[@nbafan3021]

I recently ran a school bus and was ticketed by a state trooper. The bus was stopped on the other side of a multi lane road here in NY and the law requires all traffic to stop in NY. The truth is: I did not see the big yellow school bus with flashing lights. So why didn’t I? Was I distracted ? Was I using the cell phone? Was I drunk ? The answer is no. I was not guilty of any of those things. However, after a long argument with my family at home, I decided to go to the pharmacy and while driving my mind wandered away ! During simulated driving, people's minds tend to wander upwards of 70% of the time, researchers report. Source: Frontiers. Scientists investigated potentially dangerous day-dreaming in drivers, and found that it is very common, and produces distinctive brain activity. The real danger with school busses is not that people are not stopping for the bus, but instead the buses are unloading children on busy road ways. It is pathetic to expect drivers to drive like robots on the road.

[@martinward7230]

They need to make the penalties more severe. In some states it is as severe as a DUI.

[@fhuber7507]

Mandatory 90 day impound of the car. Nice expensive tow fee and $150 a day impound fee. That should do it.

[@siempreseagull2]

sounds good. Or lose your license for a year.

[@GorgeGeorg]

@awaters0206 Legendary gamer - and losing your child for a lifetime isn't ?

[@matthewhoward6106]

@awaters0206 Legendary gamer These penalties are to prevent people from running over kids.

[@roguegirl29]

10,000$ fine, car impounded for 90 days, and AT LEAST a point on their license will probably the only way to catch their attention.

[@NeverEnoughPyro40]

@@roguegirl29 That is just totally rediculous! And how are most people going to pay that fine due to loosing their job because they can no longer drive to work! I am totally against people who pass School busses that have their red lights on, But the punishment does not fit the crime! And do not tell me that they could have killed a child crap, Because they did not! I bet if you lost your job you could not even pay your bills for a month, Let alone those fines!

[@j76ers29]

should be mandatory to have cameras on all schools buses in All the states

[@CL-cq1hi]

What good will do if the is no immediate harsh penalties for these violation.. some may cry in court. If the police didn't see it then the crime is not as bad as the camera seems..slap on the wrist, points added... Pay fine, traffic school to erase points. And back to square one.

[@majorpayne4098]

We have cameras on board that does not solve the problem.

[@Djevan41598]

SHOULD BE 180 DAY JAIL SENTENCE

[@Smash_Hits]

@@Djevan41598 YES!!! And Loss of licence for 5 YEARS! 10k fine

[@a.michellecoleman-james9882]

They should make it a federal law 1000$ fine tow of car and 100 day suspension

[@michaelgoodman9068]

Only problem is, it violates a section of the US constitution barring excessively high financial penalties. Including traffic tickets.

[@foldedgaming1381]

@@michaelgoodman9068 This should be a exception on it lol

[@Smash_Hits]

@@michaelgoodman9068 What section?

[@Smash_Hits]

@@foldedgaming1381 Could amend it lol

[@Ray56z]

@@michaelgoodman9068 Doesn't violate the constitution if they are charged with attempted murder with a weapon. These are children, fuck the moving violations or penalties. No one ran stopped buses with sign and lights when I was young.

[@troystewart7730]

So easy to solve Yes 1st offense- 1k minimum and 6 months no license and another grand for driver Ed classes again. And make it a 10 foot 8” metal tube that comes out to the left of the bus. About hood high and they’ll stop or swerve even further left to go around, which can bring a whole other set of fines consequences. If they’ve proven they will intentionally ignore law and safety and go around such a pipe in their lane- they don’t deserve a license period. If risking a child’s life doesn’t register nothing else will

[@richardsmith1331]

Glad to see the enforcement is getting sharper. People that pass busses and get caught deserve what they get.

[@gruppenfuhrer45]

As a retired police officer, it’s our society today. No one cares anymore, “I didn’t do it”. And it’s getting more and more acceptable by the courts letting the idiots off. No point on writing tickets anymore when ppl get off anyways. Glad I don’t have to deal with ppl anymore.

[@Ray56z]

Thank you for your career for the people.

[@tonycruz2302]

outfit the buses with retractable stop sticks; red lights come on ,stop sticks extend on both sides of the bus.

[@felipealvarez892]

Spike strips pull pull out when bus stops you get a ticket and a complimentary invitation to the tire shop

[@Ray56z]

Good idea but not feasible. Sometimes it's a 6 lane-or more-road. If there's no raised median oncoming traffic has to stop too. Charge with attempted murder, word will get out, people will wake up and drive, care enough to follow the law.

[@accordino86]

should carry a minimum of $1000 fine with on the spot suspension to last a minimum of 1 year car towed and require driver safety course for 1st offense and a lifetime suspension for 2nd offense

[@lindamulholland2379]

Why not give them a 1000 dollar fine and a 1000 dollar impound fee plus hefty court costs ! Maybe then these drivers will stop and save a child in the process !

[@freddiesandoval5047]

1st convictions should be 5,000 dollars..you can't replace a child's life

[@jeffforbess6802]

It’s the inconsistency that’s the problem. The ticket wouldn’t have to be huge, if they got one every time…

[@ericchang3820]

No these driver can see, they just choose to ignore

[@Ray56z]

Some of the maggots drive around stopped cars, should be charged with attempted murder using a weapon.

[@mtlongwalker8293]

Police have license plate cams, put them on the buses.

[@benderrodriguez337]

MT Long walker not enough they need to physically catch them

[@accordino86]

@@benderrodriguez337 cameras showing the offense is enough to convict. example would be traffic light cams

[@Ray56z]

Charges of attempted murder should be the first charge issued.

[@OsmanAhmad]

What if spike strips were deployed from the front and back on school buses or car stoppers whenever the sign came out?

[@TomSidProductions]

I bet they are the same people who run through regular stop signs

[@stee4592]

Some people don't get it, hello, bright yellow vehicle flashing lights, duh

[@benderrodriguez337]

The stupid part is even if the camera catches them passing the camera use is null unless a police officer physically sees them it's not enough yet if you rob or kill someone a camera shot is enough to convict but not protect our children. The laws are messed up

[@goodtimes3941]

a sensor for motion, loud siren to flashing more lights along with cameras !!!!!!!!! just in 4 months I have seen 28 stop paddle violations, on my bus. Once a Police car was behind me and he got a violator.. YEAH !!!!!!

[@joemacdonald6312]

3 days in jail with fine should do it.

[@MrGophillyeagles]

Not enough unfortunately needs to be 6 months in jail and at least 3 year license suspension for first offense

[@joemacdonald6312]

@@MrGophillyeagles hopefully they get fucked up the bum by other prisoners during those 6 months in jail.

[@craigparker3434]

Once you make the fines high enough the word will get out. Also 30 days impound on the car.

[@Ray56z]

Fine should actually be a felony charge of attempted murder with a weapon.

[@jimcee4822]

you need to stiffen the penalty for not stopping for a school bus everywhere,, all states and towns

[@thefrase7884]

NYSP here and parent.....scrolling through the comments....just want to say thank you for not thinking this is about revenue....

[@AliSakurai]

Answer: spike strips

[@absolutesrunner]

More on this issue please🙏🏽

[@majorpayne4098]

Red is the new Green. Even in our small village we have these violations EVERY DAY!

[@th5841]

Lower speed limits. Narrower streets. Speed bumps at bus stops. Reduce parking capasity. Make parking not free. Make good bicycling infrastructure. Make good, cheap, frequent, bypassing traffic, public transport. Have cars go detours. Oh, that is the Netherlands and many other European countries.

[@StijnHommes]

How can a driver possibly pass a school bus on the right when students are getting off the bus? Are they no longer stopping at the curbside?

[@nispelsm]

The drivers in those cases are actually using the shoulder of the road to go around, because oncoming traffic prevents them from (illegally) passing the bus on the left.

[@derherr65]

More lights won't fix anything. Reckless drivers are not missing a bright yellow, 45' long, 8' wide, 10' tall school bus, they simply don't care. Fit all school busses with a camera on each side, and mail out tickets. After a 1 year test, if 100% ticketing doesn't work, maybe the bus's red stoplight should be augmented with tire spike strips.

[@kishorimalvi2405]

We don’t have this in the UK but we should

[@oldbatwit5102]

It has never been needed before in the UK and it is not needed now.

[@grahvis]

@@oldbatwit5102 . We do teach kids how to cross the road safely. I can't believe how many times the school buses in the US don't even pull in to the side of the road.

[@acedriverboi2429]

@@grahvis the US has school bus stop sign laws if you don't like then don't drive in the US then .

[@grahvis]

@@acedriverboi2429 . In all the videos I've seen on the subject, it is clear the children are given a false sense of security and are not being taught how to cross the road safely. You don't for example, ever cross the road from in front or behind the bus, you wait until the bus moves away and you can see clearly in both directions if it's safe to cross. As for buses stopping so far from the edge of the road there is space for a vehicle to pass on the door side of the bus, that is absolutely appalling. You would also never see parents waiting for small children on the other side of the road from where the bus will stop in the UK. They wait on the same side and cross the road with the children.

[@acedriverboi2429]

@@grahvis Hey idiot US school bus stop sign laws don't give a false sense of security US school bus stop sign laws makes it safer for the kids driver of cars need to use common sense if you don't like US school bus stop sign laws then don't drive in the US idiot.

[@nelsonlachappellejr9377]

What is wrong with people today?I think it's time for people to get a big ticket for passing a school bus stop.Its the law.Wake up people.

[@akoww1000]

I say 500.00, one week of county service and 90 days suspended DL for the first time, 1000.00 and 1 year suspended DL, 30 days in the county jail for 2 times and 2000.00 and 5 years suspended DL and 3 months in the county jail for the 3rd time etc Trust me people will learn when they lose their DL and start getting jail time for Child endangerment

[@Ray56z]

It's not child endangerment-it's attempted murder with a weapon.

[@josevazquez4125]

All school buses need front and rear and side dashcams, and after each shift the driver should have a report of when drivers pass illegally. And have the state police look at the video of the dashcams and send the tickets with a picture like red light runners. With high penalties because it's wreckless endangerment to children, first ticket $800 and 6 months license suspension, second ticket $2,500 and 2 year license suspension, 3 time $7,000 fine 1,000 hours of crosswalk guard at neighboring schools as community service without pay and 15 years of suspension of driver license. That's the only way people will learn, but it should be a law throughout the USA Period.

[@bulldawg6259]

California in my area no longer has bus service to much trouble or no money

[@yangntau]

No no no no more lights people can see they just don’t want to see it. Just add rail road poles so that when the bus stops it comes down and blocks the road who ever doesn’t stop when the poles come out to block the road and crashes into them they’ll get 🎫 and pay for the repairs of the school bus

[@Ray56z]

Some roads/streets are 6-8 lanes wide-because oncoming traffic has to stop too if there's no raised median.

[@monroetruss4737]

add cameras that get plates and driver

[@PrincessZelda_is_My_Side_Chick]

It doesn't matter how many flashing lights you install on those school buses, those entitled a-holes are still going to drive right on by without thinking twice

[@zachariaholmsted786]

There should be a bar that comes out to punch any car that attempts to pass the bus. The bus would not be responsible for damage caused by punching the car. A camera would then snap a photo of the plate and send it to the police where they get fined $1000 and 5 points off the license.

[@TheLilredone]

Why more signs ...it's on the driver test ....just like people speed, people run bus signs because they are too good, or too busy to wait a minute or two for the kids. Fines should start super high with possible 30 day suspension.

[@julianruiz5155]

Place mounted turrets aiming the cars on top of the bus.lol

[@airwalwer]

Add cameras on the bus to catch the plates of violators. Mandatory court visit required on the ticket.

[@richardwhite5633]

I would like to add this statement if I may. I am probably the only smart person around that does obey and I say again I do obey school zones with 20 mph, and no padding ,and stop when the big yellow school buses are stopped with lights on to either let off or pick-up kids. I am not like everyone else that doesn't care if they hit or kill a child. Thank you.

[@freddiesandoval5047]

ALL THESE DRIVERS ARE ""LICENSED ""DRIVERS..MY POINT? NEWS MEDIA ALWAYS SAYS WHEN PEOPLE BREAK DRIVING LAWS WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE..BUT NEVER SAY ANYTHING WHEN LICENSED DRIVERS BREAK THE LAWS 😆

[@580papa]

after impounding make the owner responsible for crushing it!

[@rickarra1833]

If drivers are too stupid to know to stop for a school bus, they shouldn't be driving. That law is as common as not parking in front of a fire hydrant

[@WilliamTheUnkownShoutout]

This is why I hate driving a car🚘 because I don't want to hit anyone so I have my mom drive me to work and luckily my job is 5 minutes away from where I live and luckily I don't have to work until 4:00 p.m because I know kids are done school before that time😀.

[@mariasandrovich414]

That's just sad. What if your kids get sick and you have to drive them to a hospital really quickly? If you want to take a road trip? If you're really craving McDonalds and you want to eat NOW and not when your mom can drive you?

[@2011blueman]

That bar on the front of the bus needs to block the other lane.

[@azumi-osaki]

Beautiful new technology for buses and tickets but it's easy to blame drivers. The one and only technology that remains fundamental is that the schools or parents give a basic learning (schoolworks, real crash videos) to the kids (4 to 19 yo) about how to cross a street safely ; not how to use a tablet and internet in the classroom or using phone in the middle of the street. It's so weird I can not see any campagns of these basic elements... 2020 years of human evolution and this is what we get...

[@mariasandrovich414]

I agree, we don't se such silly rules in Europe. Our buses drop off the children on the sidewalk part of the road and not on the road, and if they want to cross the road they can walk to the crosswalk and cross legally.

[@nikitadondiva]

Because kids always listen and follow rules right? I expect the adults to be responsible. Driving is a privilege not a right. Children do what they’re supposed to and still get hit by a reckless speeder.

[@azumi-osaki]

@@nikitadondiva "(¬ . ¬)" kids always listen and follow rules right...

[@Ray56z]

Bus riding students are taught to watch the driver for a raised static hand sign, rush back if the horn is honked. Some districts/states the driver even gets off the bus with a handheld stop sign and walks them across-and drivers and children are still hit. Beautiful tech should be one political party stopping their effort to disparage against cops, against laws, to just stop spreading their ROT in AMERICA.

[@koryclarke1991]

If I were the bus driver. I’d yell expletives at them out my window if the drove right by my stop sign.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

In front of the children? How horrible!

[@markunavail8510]

Heres my idea bus should have spike strips that come out across the lanes beside the bus when the red lights are flashing and roll back up when done and if someone passes a stopped school bus they will get 4 flat tires there are spike stirps that work that way automatic deploy

[@chris7285]

They should have those bald guys from Mad Max Fury road on top of the busses. They’d wreck those punks!

[@yeti385]

U know was thing if they put a arm on the bus that goes across the road that on the bus that might help to stop ppl from passing the bus

[@lexxstarr9700]

STOP IT with the excuses and catering to the IGNORANT DRIVERS who do not obey the rules and laws of the road!!! RED MEANS STOP!!!!!!!! How hard is that to comprehend? These reckless drivers need to have their drivers licenses REVOKED!!!!!!! It will save lives and create a safe driving environment for everyone who do follow the rules and laws of the road.

[@eligebrown8998]

Should be a thousand dollars period. If you cant see a 50 ft long yellow school bus even in a small car your dumbass shouldn't be driving. Lights on the bumper wont help. People just dont give a shit anymore and that's why they pass the. Us.

[@sundog70]

WHAT IF... we put a car lane length of stop sticks attached to somewhere around the middle of the bus that lowers when the stop lights come on. Pass me now and see what happens. Oops who has several flat tires? Likely won't do that again. Call the police, and you get the ticket as well. Someone should invent this. I would but I'm lacking the funds. Oh ya, remember me when you make your first million.

[@huntersawesome8587]

They should take them to jail for passing school buses that way drivers can learn a lesson.

[@ddmck1972]

Many drivers just don't care.

[@keithsage1593]

Fines $500.00

[@ricardosantiago9888]

Wtf is going on with the new generation on drivers now day, during the 90’s people use to listen to law, and take their sweet time to get to work, and now everything is a hurry ugh 😑

[@fccc3379]

LOL um no. 90s people were just as bad as people today.

[@Smash_Hits]

Remember 1995 tank pursuit??

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

From now on, police squat cars will be riding along with school buses to make sure that every car doesn't pass the school buses.

[@frankrizzo1433]

Why not put cameras on the bus, that are activated when the stop signs are deployed!

[@BeTTaPacKaZombiE]

I got stopped once got a ticket but I thought it onr, the bus didn't have working lights at the back and I had proof so i won but what is worse the bus company wasn't fined for having a unsafe vehicle and a year later the busb2qs still on the road non working

[@accordino86]

sounds like bullshit to me

[@Smash_Hits]

@@accordino86 true

[@frankturchiaro1346]

revoke their license

[@matthewh1510]

Enact what I would call the "555.5 Law". Don't stop for a school bus you get 5 years license suspended - $5,000.00 fine - 5 points on your license when you get it back. If they do it again charge them with a felony and automatic 5 years in prison (NO exceptions! NO suspensions!)

[@Smash_Hits]

If I was a politican, I would endorse it! Thumbs up from me

[@artilleryisbetter]

Install a dash camera in the school bus and photo enforce it

[@jeremiahgodsey5376]

Start taking away driving license problem solved

[@2bstiff584]

when I was a kids any one passing the bus I just got off I run in to the side of there car and sue them that cost more then the ticket let just say at the place I get off they never pass that bus any more

[@adamfreeman1347]

solution: RED LIGHT CAMARA on buses. problem solved.

[@jreinel1966]

A lot of people don't give a shit!

[@deslynnsporne8684]

Any person who does not stop for the school buses should have a 1000 dollar fine and their license taken from them for life.

[@nargissultana4705]

Yield the ride of way

[@videos44]

i don't give a shit i always pass school buses

[@AtomicEy]

OOf NewYork

[@adriannefluet2896]

I want to know why you as a person chooses to do this you know who you are

[@norcanexs.g.llc.4625]

The red flashing lights and stop sign should come on a couple hundred feet before the stop, not five seconds after stopping!

[@seqka711]

That's what the break lights are for.

[@sheldonkessler4168]

People don't care.

[@hankbridges5055]

Have security on busses to stop cars.

[@CL-cq1hi]

People should do the right thing and stop with out a cop on the corner..the more people f** up the more police state we will be come..

[@makeitrightb6550]

School buses need have as many lights fire truck and ambulance have nice and bright

[@CL-cq1hi]

If you don't see the bus what make me think you see the stop lights or sign at a street corner. Hummm??? Should you be driving?

[@Kaspeerlbc]

Why can’t the bus drivers just get off and go in the middle of the street with a stop sign for extra caution ???

[@kudousawoke4468]

That’s too much it’s better to tell the kids to check both ways

[@nikitadondiva]

So the driver can get ran over too? They’re responsible for the children that are still on the bus.

[@uav123guy]

So fast you couldnt even get the colour? If you can't see the colour of a 5000 pound death box, maybe you arent fit to drive.

[@MIRAISHOME000]

L🎉

[@MotoAtheist]

It gets f'in ridiculous when the buses stop 40 times on one stretch! They need to have more limited areas that they stop, especially not on main friggin roads.

[@nikitadondiva]

Then call the school board and complain. They are the ones who designate the stops. Don’t like it don’t drive simple.

[@MotoAtheist]

@@nikitadondiva Yeah, simple for F'offs like you without a job maybe and collecting wellfare! Those of us who work for a living have to interact with society.

[@nikitadondiva]

@@MotoAtheist I find jobs for other people for a living you racist twat 🤡 A whole adult really complaining instead of getting up earlier or driving a different route. Imagine crying about kids needing to get to school. Driving is a privilege not a right goofy 😑

[@Smash_Hits]

You dingus you probably failed your driving test 🤡 @MotoAthiest