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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with PP on this one. My husband got one of these on a six lane road with a nearly 50 MPH speed limit. He was in the farthest most right lane, bus was farthest lane opposite side. There were FOUR LANES of traffic moving between them. We watched the video. The bus stopped just as he was passing on the opposite side. He would have a) had to have been looking completely perpendicular to the road to see the bus through, again, FOUR lanes of moving traffic on dangerous road that buses have NO business stopping on in the first place and then SLAMMED on his brakes going 45 mph. That sounds like a safe scenario! The craziest part was to fight it he would have had to go to Annapolis and apparently if you lose the fight they can double the ticket. [/quote]

It takes some doing to not see a school bus, especially since the driver flips the yellow lights on first.[/quote]

So are you in the habit of looking sideways going 50 on a six lane urban road?[/quote]

If you have to look sideways while driving 50 mph to see a school bus whose driver just flipped the yellow lights on, then you are not passing a stopped school bus in the first place.[/quote]

[b]But those drivers are getting video citations from this private company. [/b] They review the video in their offices in Virginia and send tens of thousands to the two police officers to review. Under the contract the company is allowed to forward citations that are not collectible at the rate of 20% of the total.  They claim to have ticketed 100,000 vehicles which means 20,000 of those citations would be in the not collectible category and can get passed on to drivers whose only recourse is to go to court.  It is in the best interest of the vendor to forward as many citations as possible as they are collecting 100% of the revenue. [/quote]

If people are getting citations for passing stopped school buses, when they didn't pass stopped school buses, then that's a problem.

But if people are saying that it's just too difficult for them to see and stop for stopped school buses -- seriously? Stop for the bus. The end.[/quote]

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