24 Responses

1. Sick lowlife criminals. They should be dragged out of their cars and pistol whipped. Can you post their license plates? I would like to do some research?

2. Unfortunately this happens multiple days a day. Thats why even though those drivers are dead wrong the bus drivers need to be proactive and take extra precaution when picking up or dropping off their precious cargo…
   In addition mothers should really be outside when their children get on to bus..

3. but two vehicles blow past the bus speeds fast enough to kill a child. as happened as recently as yesterday, just blocks away

4. Unfortunately so commonplace that it’s hardly newsworthy.

5. It might be hard for YWN to see another side because they’re the first to believe anything NEGATIVE about Chareidim – wherever they are!

   The busses are the worst abusers of their privilege and abuse drivers all the time! I’m often in BP during school morning bus pickup times. They open their flashing lights while mom still didn’t finish making the scrambled eggs for little ones yet they expect us to sit and wait till they close their lights. True that the law prohibits cars from passing but if they abuse the rule, this is bound to be the result.
   2) Did it ever occur to anybody that drivers, nicer ones, often wave cars on – and they’re allowed to. This clip doesn’t show that but that is normal for some drivers.

   I’m not stating that there are not violators but remember, the sum is the total of all parts!

6. this is exactly how ”kill” deBlasio yemachshemo runs his zoo

7. a few points
   1. 147- yesterdays horrific tragedy did not involve a school bus- totaly diff. circumstances
   2. there are 200 buses in bp & overwhelming majority stop , i am on the road in bp every morning from 810 – 835. the drivers correctly block the streets ,
   3. many of the commentators wouldn’t live in bp because of the amount of buses ,or have a yeshiva on your block w parked buses … conext is key, bp residents are way more accommodating to their mosdos as neighbors than most other neighborhoods, to potray it as if there is a diregard for children s lives is way off.
   4 . what happened here if you view closely , is that he the bus doesnt slow w yellow & flash red , so its an instant red , secondly because the bus angled left it was obvious that he was picking up on that side. so definitely wrong to pass the bus & illegal , but there is a big diff. (” pistol whipped”?)

8. I’m so surprised at all the comments posted so far. that bus first of all , should not be on the road , his red warning lights in the back are not working if you look at the picture. second , this bus has only on yellow warning light working. when you drive , you follow the rules , not our emotions.

9. In NYC children are supposed to be on the side the bus comes before the bus comes to the stop and not rely on cars stopping.

10. I don’t see any problem with the video, in fact I had to watch it twice to see the problem, maybe it’s cos I’m not from the us?

11. yosse: i am afraid you are mistaken. the lights work and the red lights were flashing not the yellow (the yellow are on the inside and the red on the outside).

    Yaapchik: your comment is abhorrent and shines a light into a dark soul with twisted priorities and a criminal disregard for human life. Not to even mention the fact that in this particular instance, the bus driver held traffic for no more than three seconds and did the pickup as fast as humanly possible.

12. Yaapchik in the video the cars dont look like they belong to charedim

13. Yaapchik:

    Take your meds. You assessed the picture incorrectly at so many levels.

    1) The obligation to obey the laws regarding school buses is because of a safety issue. Whether you are pleased with bus drivers is not part of the calculation. Go ahead and hate them, but don’t endanger our kids.

    2) The issue here is that the “parts” here involve pikuach nefesh. How you add up to the total has zero relevance to the discussion. Put away your calculator.

    3) You are obsessed with creating a picture very different from what we easily see. People refer to denial as an acronym. Don’t Even Know I Am Lying. You have misrepresented so badly it is possible that you just don’t get it. But I suggest that you possess the ability to sense reality, but would resort to lying to be “right”. Well, either way, stop it. Our kids are in danger.

14. Yt,

    The big yellow thing is a school bus. It transports children (young people) to/from school.

15. fyi the they passed the bus to the right side and there is no stop sign on the right t side

    if you got technical you can say it may be ilegal to pass a car on the right but hay dont for get the bus was on the other lane…

16. What bus drivers should really do is stop more on an angle their bus so it takes up the entire width of the street so no one can pass as kids get on. Wide angle is the answer.

17. Besalel, thanks for the compliment! All I stated was “as a general rule” bus drivers have disregard for the rest of the people! But thanks again! Besalel, you’re a great guy! I love you!

18. besalel
    look at the picture . the back lights are not flashing

19. To not getting something: So you propose unlawful retaliation – in the form of a lawless and brutal assault – and then ask YWN to provide you with information to track down the reckless drivers. Do you seriously expect YWN, or anybody else, to help you with your proposed crime?

    Let me be clear: those drivers, like so many other drivers, engaged in dangerous and reprehensible recklessness. They should lose their licenses and do some jail time. But that is for police, prosecutors and courts to accomplish, not crazed fools like not getting.

20. I’ve never seen a school bus with a door on drivers side! Aren’t they supposed to be on the passenger side so the bus must alway be next to sidewalk?

21. YT
    It’s illegal in the US and Canada to pass a bus with flashing red lights.

22. I was the one that posted the video it was on 18th Avenue which was impossible for the bus driver to block off the whole Avenue I was right behind him these cars came out of nowhere and passed while it was clear that the red lights were flashing bus driver is 100% not at fault

23. Yaapchik, get behind any non-heimishe bus orpass any public school at unloading/loading and then tell me who abuses their traffic control privileges. MOST heimishe drivers don’t have their red lights on for more than absolutely necessary (except chanukah, before purim, etc., vd”l).

24. yosse, look at the VIDEO, the lights are clearly flashing. It is simply the nature of strobe lights to produce several rapid flashes of light with an interval of a fraction of a second between flashes. A picture can capture that miniscule interval. Even in that picture/millisecond, you can see the lights on the stop signs ARE on.