Drivers not stopping for buses

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Jeanie Fuller/Special to the Kansan

As students wait to get on the bus, red lights flash overhead and a stop sign extends from the driver’s side of the bus. School officials say this fall, drivers failed to stop for school buses on a nearly daily basis.<p /><p />

  

Yellow Pages

By Chad Frey
Posted Jan 05, 2009 @ 10:20 AM
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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.

For the complete story, see the print edition of the Kansan.

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.

For the complete story, see the print edition of the Kansan.

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