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THUNDER BAY – At least eight motorists a day, on average, are ignoring flashing red lights on school buses in Thunder Bay.
The risk of a $490 fine and six demerit points on their licence doesn’t seem to be enough of a deterrent to drivers, whose failure-to-stop rate has doubled over last year’s average.“I would like to think that it’s obvious to folks that when there’s a school bus stopped and the red lights are flashing, they’ll just stop,” Anderson said. “But for some reason, whether people are distracted or not paying attention or are unaware… it seems to be an issue.
Driver Tom Saarimaki is doing his best to track the information, saying he’s had 43 incidents already this year, with school barely over a month in. “Vehicles passing school buses has been a problem for a very long time. Back in 2019 we started a program where we asked school bus drivers, as a volunteer program, to let us know when vehicles passed school buses,” Murphy said.
“So far this year we’ve had 212 vehicles pass schools buses and that’s averaging out to eight per day. We’re looking at so far this year double the occurrences, and this is only from drivers that volunteer the information. We’re confident it happens quite a bit more."
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