The Monsey area has recently had multiple accidents involving school-buses, and Ramapo Police are planning a serious crackdown.
In the past two weeks there have been at least three accidents where drivers passed school buses despite having their red lights flashing. This has resulted in serious injuries for the victims.
Sources tell YWN that Ramapo Police held an emergency meeting to map out a plan of action. Due to the seriousness of this matter, Ramapo Police held this meeting on a holiday weekend without waiting until regular work hours restart.
Drivers can take this as a warning that there will be zero tolerance for people failing to stop when school buses have their lights flashing.
Ramapo police will be adding extra patrols in marked and unmarked cars to enforce this crackdown.
So far this year, Ramapo Police have issued 96 tickets for passing stopped school buses. Ramapo Police have also documented 378 times, since the beginning of September, where officers have followed school buses to enforce this type of violation.
(Chaim Shapiro – YWN)
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i hope that they crack down on school buses that don’t follow the rules of the road.
I watched a few times whan monsey school bus Drivers open the red without making the yellow first, i drove a school bus for many years, and it was always the same bus drivers that complaint that people passed them, and almost never happened to me, and its just by me using common sense and being sensitive to other drivets on the road