EXTRA: Danger at the Bus Stop

School buses are estimated to be almost eight times safer than driving in your own car to school, but danger lies right outside the bus.

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It gets your child to school twice a day, 180 days a year. School buses are estimated to be almost eight times safer than driving in your own car to school, but danger lies right outside the bus.
Reporter Sarah Cantey investigates the dangers of illegally passing a stopped school bus. Alabama school leaders say it happens more than 290,000 times throughout the state in a year. That’s an astonishing number of times that a driver could not see a child that’s about to cross the street.
Troopers say extra enforcement would help combat the problem, but in the end it comes down to driver awareness.
Jesse Thornton, Corporal Alabama State Troopers said, “It shouldn’t take that, it shouldn’t take that enforcement. that’s one of the reasons we are doing this we educating the public on being responsible and taking a little bit of extra time every day to be aware of what’s going on around you. And understand that all it takes is one mistake behind the wheel, one irresponsible action and it could possibly cost a child it’s life.”