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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got one of these in the mail this week. What happens if you just ignore the letter and decide just not to pay the fine? And how does the appeal process work? Is there a real risk that you would end up paying more than $250 after a court appearance?

In my case, I was driving on a pretty wide two-lane road that has a lane in the middle where drivers can't go.  It's certainly not the type of road where anyone would cross in the middle. The bus was driving on the opposite side from me, and it put out its stop sign a split-second before I passed it.

So my case isn't as sympathetic as the posters who were on a six-lane highway, but the average driver wouldn't have noticed the bus on the opposite side of the road.

It is worth appealing?

Thank you![/quote]
If it was an actual divided road - one with a curbed median - appeal. If it wasn't, you messed up so pay up.[/quote]

You can’t mess up if the bus didn’t put on its yellow flashing lights 100 feet in advance. The bus camera company doesn’t track that information. None of these citations comply with Maryland law. The system was not developed for Maryland. It is a Texas system that was shut down when the FBI arrested the president and 6 others for bribes and fraud.
The mcps director of transportation who has been fired set up this deal with one of the bus camera officers now in jail.
The deal is a scam.

Appeal and tell the judge the citation doesn’t track distance and doesn’t establish if bus gave 100 foot warning with yellow flashing lights.

The bus camera company hired a mcps administrator and a Montgomery county police office to keep their in with mcps and the police.
Both violated conflict provisions to take those jobs.[/quote]
The law doesn't give the 100' thing as an exception for the car driver. It's a regulation for bus drivers.

https://govt.westlaw.com/mdc/Document/N6CEEE6E0817A11E9A4B1C23A99BDCD11?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)
[i]Vehicles required to stop upon meeting or overtaking school vehicle operating flashing red lights
(a) If a school vehicle has stopped on a roadway and is operating the [b]alternately flashing red lights specified in § 22-228 of this article[/b], the driver of any other vehicle meeting or overtaking the school vehicle shall stop at least 20 feet from the rear of the school vehicle, if approaching the school vehicle from its rear, or at least 20 feet from the front of the school vehicle, if approaching the school vehicle from its front.

Vehicles allowed to proceed when lights deactivated or motion of school vehicle resumed
(b) If a school vehicle has stopped on a roadway and is operating the alternately flashing red lights specified in § 22-228 of this article, the driver of any other vehicle meeting or overtaking the school vehicle may not proceed until the school vehicle resumes motion or the alternately flashing red lights are deactivated.
Vehicles on divided highways
(c) This section does not apply to the driver of a vehicle on a divided highway, if the school vehicle is on a different roadway.
Fines
(d) A person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000.
Credits
Added by Acts 1977, c. 14, § 2, eff. July 1, 1977. Amended by Acts 1982, c. 26; Acts 1986, c. 472, § 1; Acts 1986, c. 474; Acts 1988, c. 199; Acts 1995, c. 496, § 1, eff. Aug. 15, 1995; Acts 1998, c. 360, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1998; Acts 1999, c. 524, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2000, c. 332, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2004, c. 111, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2004; Acts 2011, c. 273, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2011; Acts 2017, c. 55, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2017; Acts 2017, c. 744, § 1, eff. July 1, 2017; Acts 2019, c. 429, § 1, eff. June 1, 2019.
Formerly Art. 66 ½, § 11-706.
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Note it doesn't say "go ahead and pass a stopped bus with red lights flashing because the bus driver didn't put the amber/yellow lights on." But yu can try the judge.

Far better to put your phone away, pay attention, and be prepared to stop any time you see a school bus. If this is too much for you, stick to transit.[/quote]

Note be bold test... if the bus didn't put the lights on in accordance with that statute, then there is no violation of this one.[/quote]

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