We showed our bus cam tapes to Registrar Dan Grabauskas. This is putting children in danger. But Grabauskas knows local law enforcement can't be everywhere. The problem is that although registry investigators track down every complaint, all they can do for a first offense is send the driver a warning. But though cops handed out more than 97,000 citations for running stoplights and signs last year, they gave only about 1,400 for running by school buses.
Federal officials say someone has to crack down.
The driver's mindset now is that they won't get caught, that's is why they do it. In North Carolina, law enforcement actually put cameras on school buses to nail dangerous drivers. But parents say the best deterrent could be to just imagine it's your child getting ready to cross the street. You can't forget it. You can't pass a school bus and assume there won't be a child there ever again, because at any instant it could be a dead child.