Harsher penalties could be on the way for people who improperly pass a stopped school bus…along with a new tool for catching violators.
Katrina Morris is the president of the Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation. She says they did a survey this year of about 1-thousand of the more than 15-thousand bus drivers. They were asked how many times they were passed illegally. In one day the total was 508 times.
“Our children are at risk and we need to let the public know that’s not okay.”
The bills are two-fold. One part would allow special cameras on school busses and standardize that practice. The second part would increase the penalty for passing a stopped school bus from a civil infraction to a misdemeanor. That way law enforcement could use the videos of a car that illegally passes a bus.