mechanics turned in their CDLs so they wouldn’t have to drive. I have no idea how they can test a bus without a valid license.” Larry Humberston, superintendent of transportation at Allegany County Public Schools in Cumberland, Maryland, oversees a “pro- gressive system” that is in place for all school districts in the state. “For instance, if they knock a mirror, we give them one hour of retraining. With COMAR, Maryland’s Code of Regulations, there are certain things we’re required to do. If the driver has over two accidents in two years with over three thousand dollars in damages, or injuries, we can de-certify them. You really need to ask yourself, ‘Should this person be driving a school bus?’ Also, if there is a pattern of accidents, we retrain the driver. We want to help them. If they had a tail-swing accident, we’ll go ahead and set up cones. We narrow those cones right down. Ideally, I want that driver to say that they can’t get through. I don’t want them to try it and hit a cone, because that cone could be a pedestrian.” However, the National Transportation Safety Board said some of the procedures Humberston outlined were repeatedly missed by Baltimore City Public Schools. NTSB is urging the Maryland State
Department of Education to conclude a review of the district’s transportation department for an alleged lack of school bus driver oversight that federal investigators say contributed to last Novem- ber’s fatal head-on collision between a school bus driver and an transit bus. Meanwhile, in Franklin County, Kentucky, Brad McKinney said he doesn’t have an accident review committee yet, but he aims to form one soon. “Right now, I’m in the process of planning my post-accident procedures and determining how I’m going to evaluate each incident,” explained McKinney, who was beginning just his third week as the district’s transportation director when interviewed for this article in September. “If the driver is at fault, say in a backing accident, I’m going to have them go out on the road with the driver trainer and practice.” McKinney drove a school bus for 17 years and said he knows
full well how school bus drivers can tend to get complacent over time. “I know that I would catch myself doing things I shouldn’t be doing out on my route, and I want to help my drivers recognize what habits they might be falling into,” he said. “Also, if a driver
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