Drivers not stopping for buses

It’s become a daily ritual for Tony Seahorn, the first-year transportation director for Newton USD 373. One he wishes he didn’t have to go through.

Each day when bus drivers return from routes, they hand him license plate numbers of drivers who didn’t stop when the lights were flashing and the stop sign is out.

“I don’t know if people don’t realize it, or what is happening,” Seahorn said. “We are just trying to look out for the safety of the kids.”

There is one bus route in particular — a route through the city of Newton — that gives him a new plate to report almost every day. Recently on that route, the bus driver wrote down three plate numbers in one day.

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