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Te trial began the following November, and the jury found him not guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide but guilty of the four misdemeanors. He was sentenced in January 2013 to 300 days in jail. Meanwhile, the school district contacted Sperry to ask


if Makayla’s classmates and two local high school seniors could take on project that petitioned for state legisla- tion to require stop-arm video cameras on all school buses. Te Sperry’s also met with state legislators and monitored the bill’s progress from beginning to end. All of their efforts were successful, as the state provided $5 million to retrofit every bus in the state with the camera system and requires all newly purchased buses to be similarly equipped. “I owe this law to Makayla’s classmates and her school-


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“We heard the accident, we heard the impact…Absolute nightmare.”


For instance, Sperry said had to cross the highway to her home, despite the fact that Sperry said they lived only 10 minutes from the end of the route, at which point the bus would turn around and drive past their house again but on the same side of the highway. It could have been just as easy and safer for the district to extend Makayla’s ride a few more minutes. “As a parent I could have pushed for that. I didn’t un-


til afterward, and now the school district is doing that,” he explained. “Tey don’t drop kids off so they have to cross the highway, even if it means they’re on the bus for an extra 10 minutes.” Sperry is scheduled to speak during the STN EXPO


Opening General Session at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 24. Attendees are urged to keep in mind that the con-


ference starts in full force on Saturday this year with two-hour session, as the only remaining pre-conference seminar produced by the STN EXPO is the eight-hour NHTSA Child Passenger Safety Restraints on School Buses workshop. Tat afternoon, all five tracks for


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mates,” Sperry said. “It was their dedication, their hard work and their love for Makayla’s life that this law was passed.” But the Sperry’s said more work must be done to not only protect children in Wyoming or in Idaho but nationwide. “We feel that this was an avoidable accident. And if things were done different, things as parents we could have done differently, Makayla could still be here.” Sperry added.


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