School bus cameras catching drivers
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YAKIMA & SELAH, Wash. -- KIMA is following up on school bus cameras installed to catch drivers who don't stop for the buses. The Selah School District installed the cameras earlier this year. Since then, police have issued about two dozen warnings and, ten drivers got tickets. School administrators says the cameras are helping.
"We've noticed that people are being more attentive and watching as they are coming down the road for the buses and their red lights. Actually not just on the one route we've had chronic problems but on all the routes. So it’s gotten a lot better,” said Selah School District Transportation Director Debbie Heidi.
Yakima police say they haven't given tickets for drivers violating school bus stop signs. But, the department sent more than a hundred warnings last year, and, 21 so far this school year.
"We've noticed that people are being more attentive and watching as they are coming down the road for the buses and their red lights. Actually not just on the one route we've had chronic problems but on all the routes. So it’s gotten a lot better,” said Selah School District Transportation Director Debbie Heidi.
Yakima police say they haven't given tickets for drivers violating school bus stop signs. But, the department sent more than a hundred warnings last year, and, 21 so far this school year.
they should be watching the bus drivers , i cant count how many times i see them speed down my residential road, or california stop at the stop signs, or cut off my wife in the morning , or fail to stop at train intersections. the bus drivers drive with a sense of self intitlement as if they dont need to obey the laws because they have a schedule to keep.