School Transportation News Magazine | November 2009
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When it comes to school bus safety, a
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growing number of lawmakers, educators and transportation professionals are hop- ing that an ounce of prevention is worth a child’s life — priceless. Tat is the vision pro- pelling a slow but steady movement to en- act legislation with prevention as its central theme. It relegates prosecution to a last re- sort subplot that features those errant mo- torists who put children at risk by refusing to pay attention to the world around them. Sponsors of laws passed recently say
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they believe prevention is the opportu- nity made possible by emerging technolo- gies that are finally catching up with the critical need to prevent child deaths while entering and exiting school buses. Tey want to put an end to the need to pros- ecute anyone for violating school bus stop arm laws by preventing the violations. New laws are now incorporating tech-
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nologies such as cameras to capture im- ages of stop arm violators that can be used in court. Tese measures also allow the use of illuminated signs, strobe lights and other technologies to call motorists’ attention to school buses loading or unloading children. School transportation officials have used existing equipment in creative
configurations to prevent stop arm vio- lations. Driving through a stop arm and injuring a child was made a felony in Ar- kansas after 9-year-old Isaac Bryan was killed in 2004 while attempting to board his school bus. Te punishment did not diminish the incidence of violations. Tis year, Arkansas Sen. Kim Hendren teamed with education transportation officials to craft legislation that allows a state-op- erated pilot project to place cameras on school buses to capture images of stop arm violators in the act. Hendren says he not only hopes to
prevent children from being hurt, he also hopes the measure will prevent drivers who injure children from going through the hell brought on by feelings of guilt. “I love the concept of prevention over
prosecution,” Hendren says. “Te thrust of school bus safety is not to write tickets to raise money, but to save the lives of our children and to prevent people from in- juring a youngster and having to live with that fact for the rest of their lives.” A judge in North Carolina echoed Hen-
dren’s comments when he sentenced a 60-year-old woman to probation for killing 16-year-old Nicholas Adkins in January. Te
Prevention Technology the Best Route to School Bus Safety, Lawmakers Say By Art Gissendaner, Contributor
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