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These same professionals, backed with insight gained from countless collaborative discussions with industry associations, government legislators and school districts recently introduced the only holistic, comprehensive, multi-pronged suite of solutions to protect students in the Danger Zone: The Safe Fleet Illegal Passing Suite.
Every Second Counts: The Danger Zone solution that gives students the time to stay safe. The Illegal Passing Suite includes ground-
breaking, proactive technology designed to keep students from harm’s way in the first place. This solution addresses the longstanding problem of il- legal school bus passing, increasing student safety in the Danger Zone with a three-step approach:
Step 1: Heighten visibility that the school bus is stopping or stopped. The Safe Fleet Hi-Visibility, Illuminated Stop Arm and Driver Alert Device work together to inform drivers behind the bus about an upcom- ing stop. Placed on the back door, the Driver Alert LED panel flashes “Caution - Stopping” when the bus slows down and activates its 8-way lights. When the bus’ red lights are on and the Stop Arm is deployed, the panel flashes “Stop Do Not Pass.” The Illuminated Stop Arm gets the driver’s atten-
tion with a highly reflective decal and the word “STOP” brightly backlit with LEDs. The arm deploys and lets drivers know the bus is stopped, and they should stop, too.
“We are always looking for ways to improve safety - it’s the baseline for everything we do. We formed the Safe Fleet Advanced Technology Group (ATG) for this purpose. Starting at a grassroots level in 2015, we realized proactive,
advanced technology was necessary to halt the rapidly progressing illegal passing epidemic. The ATG group envisioned, developed and refined the technology that would become the Predictive Stop Arm™ (PSA). And our contributions to the Stop for School Buses Act led to legislation to research the effectiveness of school bus safety
solutions. I’ll always be proud to be a part of that.” -Chris Akiyama, Vice President, School Bus Sales
“Our history of bringing game-changing safety solutions to market is a point of pride for Safe Fleet. Today, we can comfortably say that almost every school bus in North America has a Safe Fleet product on it. Many
of these changed the safety landscape at the time of their release. They continue to add to the level of safety each student experiences on their way to and from school. Each product also speaks to our ongoing, wide-spread commitment in safety as a whole inside and
outside the bus.” -Mike Hagan, Sr. VP, Safe Fleet Passenger Transportation, Law Enforcement & Waste
“The PSA is keeping countless kids from harm and educating drivers (even those who are distracted have stopped their vehicles on a dime when they hear the PSA issue it’s audible alert to, “Stop, get back!”). And the case of one student
in Minnesota, engrossed in his phone and failing to look for oncoming traffic, the PSA audible alert prompted him to stop abruptly, and the car that was on course to strike him came so close it knocked the cell phone out of his hands.” -Chris Fox, Product Manager
34 School Transportation News • FEBRUARY 2024
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