Thursday, 08 September 2011
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Back To School: School Bus Safety
It's that time of year when school buses are everywhere. Here are some safety tips to review!Things Parents Should know About School Bus Safety:
• School buses are the safest form of highway transportation.
• The most dangerous part of the school bus ride is getting on and off the bus.
• Pedestrian fatalities (while loading and unloading school buses) account for approximately three times as many school bus-related fatalities, when compared to school bus occupant fatalities.
• The loading and unloading area is called the “Danger Zone”
• The “Danger Zone” is the area on all sides of the bus where children are in the most danger of not being seen by the driver (ten feet in front of the bus where the driver may be too high to see a child, ten feet on either side of the
bus where a child may be in the driver’s blind spot, and the area behind the bus).
• Half of the pedestrian fatalities in school bus-related crashes are children between 5 and 7 years old.
• Young children are most likely to be struck because they:
• Hurry to get on and off the bus
• Act before they think and have little experience with traffic
• Assume motorists will see them and will wait for them to cross the street
• Don’t always stay within the bus driver’s sight
Any motorist knows that a yellow traffic light means prepare to stop if possible and red light mean stop.
School bus warning lights mean the same thing. Flashing yellow lights mean CAUTION, the bus is preparing to stop. Flashing red lights mean STOP, school children are boarding or leaving the school bus.
One thing that makes me really really mad as a parent is when people keep driving when the bus is stopped and the sign is out and flashing red. STOP!!!!! It is the law. Plus wherever you are going it is NOT that important that it is worth HITTING and KILLING a CHILD.
OBEY THE STOP ARM!!!!!
Tips for drivers
* Abide by 20 mph school zones. Driving just 5 mph faster increases both the risk of hitting a child and the severity of related injuries.
* Motorists must stop for a school bus any time it has stopped to load or unload students, red warning lights flashing.
* All school buses stop at railroad crossings.
Please Obey The Law. STOP WHEN THE BUS STOPS. It could save a child's life.
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A kid in my home town was waiting on the school bus yesterday. Someone backed out of their driveway and hit and killed the boy, He was in 5th grade. His brother was there with him and witnessed the incident. And then his bus pulled up and all the kids on the bus saw the horrific scene. My cousins go to that school and my aunt said when the bus pulled up at the school all the kids on that bus were screaming and crying. So parents, please teach your child as they are waiting at the bus stop to watch out for cars, especially coming out of driveways. This was so sad!
another danger that I witnessed this morning is children/teens walking to school talking or texting on their phones or, worse listening to iPods/mp3 players. I stopped a young girl from getting hit by a car backing out of a lane way because she wasn't watching where she was going. On the way home I watched another student walk into a parked car, while listening to an mp3 player. Not an hour later I was out for a walk with the baby when a young man was texting while walking and stepped out into traffic just about getting squashed by a UPS truck. And this was all in 1 morning!
Here in Ontario Canada there is a huge fine for cars that don't stop when the school bus stop sign is flashing. It's $2000!
@Persiankitty@xanga - its actually up to $2500 now, plus a loss of 2 points. A young man who lives next door got nailed with a ticket this morning.