Students and drivers need to be on the lookout for each other

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Opinion

September 4, 2019 - 10:29 AM

State officials wanted to know if drivers were doing any better obeying state law that requires people to stop any time a school bus stops to pick up or let off students. 

The results were scary.

Roughly a third of all drivers whizzed right on by, in open violation of state law. Video from buses shows some students within inches of being clipped by speeding drivers, officials said. 

State law in Kansas — and in every other state we know of — forbids drivers from passing a stopped school bus when the driver has the flashing red lights on and the “stop” arm extended. 

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