tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50053837318133265362024-02-07T17:52:41.491-08:00School Bus SafetySchool Bus video cameras and transportation issuesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01160248291073763020noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005383731813326536.post-47694994074377514382014-08-22T22:43:00.000-07:002014-08-22T22:43:00.349-07:00Why are School Districts paying so much for their mobile video camera systems?<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #67797f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
n our normal lives we see new technology prices reduce over time, so why then are School Districts still paying so much for old DVR camera technology?</div>
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Do you remember when the new flat screen plasma TV screens first came on the market and the cost was out of this world, something like $20,000. Today just a few years later you can walk into a shop and get one for just hundreds of dollars.</div>
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So why are the traditional mobile video camera manufactuers like Seon, Angetrax, 247 Security etc still able to charge school district from $1000 to $1400 for a 1 camera system that is after all old DVR technology and not HD. These DVR systems are years old and they don't even have High Definition video. All of these DVR's are manufactured in Asia so why haven't the costs come down?</div>
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Well most of these manufactuers have actually being reducing their manufacturing costs over the past few years by getting rid of their 1 and 2 camera systems and replacing them with the 4 camera system. This reduces their inventory costs in having to hold multiple DVR options. So they actually offer a 4 camera system even if you only want a 1 or 2 camera system. They will argue well if you need extra cameras then you can add them. The reality is School Districts are paying high premiums for a DVR that has features they will never use. Not many School Bus fleets can afford or have the budget to pay for 4 cameras on every bus, many will never use the wi-fi or dual streaming features because the cost of implement these features are just way to expensive. (Article on the true costs of Wi-Fi and automatic downloading)</div>
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For School Bus fleets that are just looking for a 1 or 2 camera mobile video camera solution it just does not make sense to pay over $1000 for a DVR that you are only using at best 50% of its features. So when School Districts write Bid proposals or RFP's for a 1 camera mobile video camera system why does the specification state the need for a 4 camera DVR? is it becuase the maunfactuers are righting the specifications to fit their agenda's?</div>
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In these economically challenging times, increased fuel costs, budget cuts etc, can School Districts really afford to pay for product features they are not going to use? and allowing the traditional mobile video manufactuers to dictate the price. Should'nt your mobile video technology partner be trying to make your budget go further by providing the latest technology and innovative approaches to fit the way your operation works?</div>
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tti's approach is to put our customer first and work with you to provide solutions to over come some of the challenges you are facing. As a result wouldn't it be good if you could have a mobile video camera system that is:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HD - High definition allows you to view the image on a large screen, zoom in, see the detail of what actually happened</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How about a video camera system that can be moved to other buses in minutes - makes your budget go further</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How about making installation so easy you don't have to pay installation costs </li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How about a built in rotating screen that drops down to help in positioning the camera, and then folds out of the way</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SD card video storage - no moving parts, and no heavy bulky harddrives to walk around the yard</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A locking and vandleproof case</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How about bulkhead mounting which allows the camera head to be repositioned in minutes if you require</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IR illumination to help in poor light </li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You need a company that will support you..tti is there to help with any software questions, set-up, training etc</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O yes lets make the price more realistic - $390 for a whole sytem per bus, with locking mechanism $490 per bus...</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And of cause you want to try the product before purchasing, no problem we will ship you a free no obligation Buddy NightOwl camera system to test for 2 weeks</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who else has bought from tti? well our school bus customers span right across North America - they have all benefited from the savings and the flexibility of our mobile video camera solutions</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01160248291073763020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005383731813326536.post-92005235202499560062014-08-22T22:41:00.002-07:002014-08-22T22:41:52.003-07:00School Bus accidents - Stats<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #67797f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that 96 percent of the estimated 8,500 to 12,000 children injured in school bus accidents annually are considered minor (scrapes, bumps, bruises, etc.).</div>
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NHTSA calculated that 4 percent of the school bus-related injuries to children -- about 350 to 475 annually -- are serious (i.e. broken bones or worse) based on the medical community's widely accepted AIS or Abbreviated Injury Scale.</div>
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An average of six children are fatally injured inside school buses annually.</div>
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About 16 children are fatally injured as pedestrians in the loading & unloading zone around school buses annually. That's better than 200 percent improvement from 75 school bus fatalities in 1975; it is still not good enough.</div>
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During the seven years between 1989 and 1996, 9,500 school-age children were killed during school hours while riding in all kinds of motor vehicles.</div>
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The federal government considers school buses to be about nine times safer that other passenger vehicles during the normal school commute.</div>
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According to data gathered for NHTSA's Fatal Analysis Reporting System, about 600 school age children are killed annually riding to and from school in motor vehicles other than school buses. These fatalities occur during school transport hours (7 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 5 p.m.), on school days (Monday through Friday) only, and during the typical 180 day school year, to children riding to and from school, mostly in automobiles.</div>
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You have a fleet of buses that have traditional DVR systems installed and they all use hard-drives. Just like the days of VHS tapes you are starting to find that your hard-drives are now starting to fail and break down. Hard-drives by their nature and design are prone to mechanical failure as they record the video data onto a spinning disk, a bit like the old days of vinyl records. After a while due to these moving parts and vibration of the vehicle they start to fail. Depending on when and the type of DVR system you purchased you may now find that you cannot find a hard-drive replacement unless you try and make one yourself. With hard-drives costing from $250 and upwards it might be an idea to consider replacing your video camera system for a SD Card video mobile video camera solution which costs $490 per vehicle and includes High Definition video as standard.</div>
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4. Storage capacity. The argument many manufacturers make is that you need large 250GB hard-drives etc for video, however in our view this is just not necessary. With a 32GB SD card (Class 10) you can get upto 10 days of video. According to our customers if an accident or incident has happened you will be retriving that video very quckly either by demand from law enforcement or complaints from parents. The video is not going to sit around for weeks and months on the bus because if it does then it really was not an important incident at all. So why pay for months and months of storage when in reality its not even needed?</div>
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So if you are facing the issue of replacing DVR hard-drives then we welcome the opportunity of sending you a complete new camera system to evaluate for yourself and to see exactly the true value of a new camera system that only costs $490 per bus (Buddy NightOwl) and that includes High Definition video as standard.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01160248291073763020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005383731813326536.post-36559420963256622522012-11-14T12:11:00.000-08:002012-11-15T15:53:16.782-08:00Lawsuit attacks cameras mounted on school buses in Jefferson Parish<br />
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The lawyers who have been challenging <a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/traffic%20cameras/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">traffic cameras</a> at intersections in Jefferson Parish and New Orleans now are launching an attack on cameras affixed to school buses in Jefferson that catch violators who disregard bus-mounted stop signs. Their latest lawsuit argues that the cameras violate the Louisiana Constitution by using civil proceedings to address moving violations and giving law enforcement power to a company motivated by profit instead of impartiality.</div>
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"It's the very same constitutional issues that we raised in the red light lawsuit," said Joseph McMahon, a lawyer who says he has signed up more than 20 plaintiffs in the school bus camera case and seeks to turn it into a class action. He filed the case last month in <a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/jefferson-courts/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">24th Judicial District Court</a> in Gretna.</div>
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The <a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/jefferson-parish-school-board/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jefferson Parish School Board</a>approved a program in 2007 that uses cameras inside buses as a security measure against student misbehavior and driver wrongdoing, and cameras installed on the exteriors of buses to generate tickets for drivers blowing past when children are boarding or disembarking.</div>
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The program was slow to move, however, because of installation problems and resistance from drivers who own their buses. School system officials said nine owner-operators now have the cameras, along with six buses run by a transportation company. That's a small portion of the 338 buses that traverse the parish for the public schools every day.</div>
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As currently written, the lawsuit spares the parish School Board as a defendant but instead targets an ordinance passed by the Jefferson Parish Council in 2008 allowing the creation of school bus traffic camera programs and setting fines from $295 to $500. McMahon said he could later add the School Board to the suit.</div>
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The <a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/new-orleans-city-council/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">New Orleans City Council </a>created a similar ordinance in 2010. Education officials said last week that none of the buses operating under the <a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/opsb/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Orleans Parish School Board</a> have cameras and seven buses serving the <a href="http://topics.nola.com/tag/recovery-school-district/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Recovery School District</a> are equipped with cameras but have yet to generate any tickets.</div>
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The lawsuit says the Jefferson program violates drivers' due process rights because the parish ordinance, "immediately assumes a plaintiff guilty or liable of overtaking a school bus simply because the plaintiff is the registered owner of the vehicle photographed."</div>
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The complaint says the program deprives drivers of the ability to confront prosecution witnesses against them, such as police officers, because the only witnesses are automated devices. It says the ordinance allows the parish to overstep its authority by carrying out enforcement on streets controlled by cities or the state.</div>
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Parish Attorney Deborah Foshee said she could not comment on details of the ongoing case.</div>
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The lawsuit names Redflex Traffic Systems of Phoenix as the company receiving enforcement powers that the plaintiffs deem invalid, although Redflex is not the company operating the school bus cameras. That job went to a Harahan firm called ONGO Live. A Redflex spokesman said Redflex doesn't offer a bus camera service.</div>
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McMahon said the Redflex name serves as a placeholder in the suit as he gathers more information for the case.</div>
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Redflex is the company that installed fixed cameras at intersections across Jefferson Parish. Those cameras have long sat dormant, however, after the Parish Council suspended the program amid concerns about portions of ticket proceeds going to lobbyists for the firm. Redflex then sued the parish over the camera freeze and its share of money already collected through tickets. Parish government has been holding about $20 million generated through the cameras in escrow.</div>
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That case remains pending, as do the other cases filed by McMahon against the validity of cameras as enforcement tools.</div>
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The contract between the School Board and ONGO Live directs 60 percent of the bus camera revenue to the company, 20 percent to the school system and 20 percent to the Sheriff's Office, which has deputies review the gathered footage of drivers. School officials said the district's share comes to about $20,000 a year and goes toward buying computers.</div>
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As part of his investigation, McMahon said he is seeking the number of tickets generated by school bus cameras in Jefferson Parish. School officials said they don't have immediate access to that data.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01160248291073763020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005383731813326536.post-4583286802858281662012-11-14T12:03:00.002-08:002012-11-15T21:54:55.064-08:00Lawsuit: Tusc. school negligent in school bus sexual assault<em class="wnDate" orgfontsize="11px" style="clear: both; color: #d62c2e; display: block; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Posted: Nov 08, 2012 3:43 PM PST</em><em class="wnDate" orgfontsize="11px" style="clear: both; color: #d62c2e; display: block; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Updated: Nov 08, 2012 3:43 PM PST</em><br />
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A mother has filed a lawsuit claiming her child was sexually<br />
assaulted on a school bus and claims that the school was negligent in the incident.</div>
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The alleged assault happened two years ago but the lawsuit wasn't filed until earlier<br />
this week. It claims that a 21-year-old student at Oak Hill School in Tuscaloosa fondled<br />
and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl while on the bus. At the time, both attended<br />
the school and suffer from mental and or physical disabilities.</div>
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There are three people named in the suit: the bus driver, the bus aid and the director of<br />
transportation services. The lawsuit alleges that security cameras on the bus weren't<br />
working, but kids on the bus took cell phone pictures of what happened; the boy allegedly<br />
fondled and sexually assaulted the girl, which left her bloody with cuts to her face and a<br />
missing tooth; and that the victim's disability makes it difficult for her to talk, let alone<br />
defend herself.</div>
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"There needs to be a growing concern for taking care of those with special needs and<br />
special abilities. There's a higher degree of care that's necessary," Clint Mountain,<br />
the victim's attorney, said.</div>
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The Tuscaloosa City School system is not named in the suit. A school spokeswoman<br />
declined to comment other than to say one of the three people named in the suit has<br />
retired and no longer works for the school system.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01160248291073763020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005383731813326536.post-35606936109228187772012-10-02T14:41:00.000-07:002012-10-02T14:56:44.220-07:00A new approach to mobile video surveillance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With such economical challenges facing fleet & transportation directors its time for a different approach. It does not make sense to be paying thousands of dollars for black box DVR and camera systems currently being offered by the major manufacturers. Firstly they are expensive, but also you cannot move them, which means you have to fit a DVR system to every vehicle in the fleet...so in reality only a few vehicles are installed each year. Surely it would be great if you could move the camera system in minutes to a vehicle that is having issues whether thats driver or passenger. Not only that a system that doe snot include extra installation costs, is easy to use and captures High Definition video. Its amazing the leading DVR manufacturers like Seon Design and AngleTrax, Safety Vision do not offer High Definition as standard. The reason is that they can still sell old technology for a premium cost because if they all do it you the purchaser have no choice.</span><br />
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We are seeing a growing trend in the school bus transportation market with more and more Transportation Directors switching from the traditional fixed big black box DVR to the flexible plug & play solutions now available on the market.</div>
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<b>The traditional mobile DVR </b>is quite large and is usually located under the drivers seat. The cameras are then positioned onto the bulkhead and require fixed wiring behind the bulkhead panels. This adds extra installation costs from $150 - $250 per vehicle. Access to the DVR is difficult since it is located under the driver seat and makes collection of the video data extremely difficult. The DVRs themselves that are offered in the school bus market are based on old technology and firmware and do not capitalize on consumer electronics which have economies of scale savings and the lastest High Definition quality video. Because the DVR is fixed and so are the cameras it means that you have to purchase a system for every vehicle, which gets extremely expensive when these systems start from $1000 - $$2500</div>
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<b>Plug & Play mobile video surveillance cameras</b> offer Transportation Directors a number of key benefits. They have High Definition video quality so you don't need as many cameras on a school bus. They can be powered either by the cigarette power socket or wired to the battery so moving them to other vehicles is extremely easy. With different mounting options available you can install bulkhead mounts in every vehicle and move the camera units to vehicles you want to monitor. This means great savings. With solutions using SD Cards, with no moving parts and built into the camera itself you can easy take the SD Card out and view the footage on a PC. Also with cameras with built in screens you can actually see where the camera is pointing and make adjustments as required. With solutions starting from $295 Transportation Directors have a real flexible solution that fits their budget requirements.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School Bus drivers have a tough job. Unfortunately our little Angels get upto all sorts when on a bus, from fighting, vandalism, bullying etc. Not only that the driver has to deal with angry parents who believe every word their little Angel tells them, without knowing the facts. The video above shows a parent not happy with her child being hit by another and takes matters into her own hands.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its become a way of life these days that people seem to be compelled to answer a cell phone call, a text or a tweet as soon as they receive it, even if they are driving a vehicle at the time. This dangerous practice continues to happen every day even when new laws have been introduced, fines and driver training courses highlighting the issues. Drivers not only put themselves at risk but their passengers i.e children or passing pedestrians or oncoming drivers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As every parent and School district knows school bullying is a complex and difficult issue to resolve. Bullying comes in many forms and with the internet it takes on a whole new dimension from the physical to the verbal abuse which is now shared among their groups online.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schools have a difficult task of stamping out bullying because the grounds can be large and a lot of the activity goes beyond the school gates i.e bus stops, on the bus and walks home. However, the school bus can help identify bullies by having mobile video cameras installed and it can be done for under $300. Parents and School heads can actually see what is going on and work together to educate and change the behaviour before it gets out of control and escalates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets start with Why? what are you hoping to achieve once they are installed. This seems a simple question but the technology is now built into some solutions to do more than just video capture, they can now be used for some degree of fleet management. The under lying question of budget and level of resources you have to support the solution also play a huge part in the decision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Why? what are you wanting to achieve, is video all you want? do you want historical GPS data, Live GPS data (requires a cell network plan - extra cost) speed, wi-fi for connecting and downloading (extra costs in building wi-fi network in your yard and data storage onto servers etc, and training staff to support it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Ease of use - if you want just to capture video, and your happy with that and you don't have trained PC staff etc or much time then you need a simple solution that works. Their are a number of solutions from 2 camera systems built in with a lens pointing to the front and rear of the vehicle. The issue with these solutions is that they are only standard video resolution, difficult to point the lenses other than straight up and down. Or you use a Plug & Play solution that offers High Definition, can be positioned anywhere, built in GPS (no fee) shows speed and braking and yet is really easy to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Budget - do you have money to install the whole fleet or looking to buy a number per year. What happens to buses rouets who have issues and don't have a camera, with fixed systems you can do nothing, with Plug & Play just move a camera onto that vehicle within minutes and monitor whats going on. There is no reason that you have to play such high prices for DVR's anymore, manufactuers have been gauging the customer for years with old technology. Look for solutions that uses consumer technology - which is high quality and has volume reductions from the millions of chips and circuits sold in devices and leverage this benefit into your requirements. Would you pay $900-$1200 for a video camera for yourself these days...no....do you question the reliability of the technology no, do you expect to buy High Definition....yes as standard. So why buy old DVR technology for your buses...because most manufactures have not invested in HD,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Support - You run a complex operation, yes you need quality support. You should not buy solutions from the internet just becuase you have limited budget (a). You do not know whether the product is poor quality (b) you have no support to call if you have a question or need any help ...there are now new manufactuers in School Bus market who offer quality solutions and support</span><br />
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The BX1500 is a technically advanced, simple to operate, dash camera for your vehicle. Using a high resolution color camera at 30 frames per second, an internal 3-axis shock sensor, and built-in GPS, the Buddy BX1500 allows you to record detailed data throughout every drive. Once you have recorded data, the BX1500 playback software enables you to search, view and save the data to your PC...</div>
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BX1500 offers to both commercial and private vehicle operators an effective risk reducing means to aid in the investigation process, decrease collateral damages associated with car accidents, encourage safe driving, monitor driving behaviors, and enhance the overall safety on the road.</div>
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BX1500, an in-vehicle Event Data Recorder (EDR), makes constant recordings of video footages on a loop as the journey continues. A pre-determined amount of G-force will activate recording and put the latest image to memory; up to 20 seconds prior to contact (full-time recording is also an option).</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The video is heartbreaking: a pack of junior high boys berating a 68-year-old school bus monitor in upstate New York. She's brought to tears as the students pepper her with profane put-downs about her weight, age, livelihood and more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You're not sweating?" one kid asks her. "Why's there water down your face?"</span></div>
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The traditional mobile video surveillance solutions on the market today involves a DVR (basically a computer hard-drive) placed under a drivers seat and wires running within side the bulkhead to a fixed camera mounted on the vehicle ceilling. The problem with this approach is that the DVR is hard to access if you need to retrieve the video and their is extra cost for installing (ranging from $150-$250 per vehicle). Also you need the same set-up for every vehicle in your fleet which become extremely expensive. Traditional video technology is quite old now and the picture quality is quite low resulting in details of faces being lost, hence you need to install more cameras. Costs for Traditional mobile video surveillance systems and installation range from $1200 -$2400.<br />
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Plug & Play mobile video surveillance solutions (from tt-i) offer fleet managers an alternative modern approach to the problem of mobile video surveillance. Firstly HD quality video gives clean crisp images so nothing is vague and allows for zooming in without image break-up. Plug & Play as its name suggests means anyone can install quickly and easily without technical knowledge. It also means you can move the cameras to other vehicles, thus reducing costs and making your budget go further. If needed you can add more than one camera to a vehicle very easily.<br />
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Some Plug & Play solutions include built in screens for easy camera positioning, built in GPS for vehicle tracking, speed monitoring, driver alarm triggers on video, time stamps, motion detection, multiple mounting options such as screen and bulkhead mounts, Video is stored on SD cards which eliminates moving parts and is more reliable than traditional hard-drives and further reduces your costs.These high end solutions start at only $295 for a HD 1 camera solution with built in motion detection and go up-to $899 for the new Buddy BX4000 4 camera package being launched at the end of June 2012.<br />
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Technology changes so quickly so why invest in expensive video equipment that in a few years will be out of date i.e hardrives, connectors, GPS, video quality, viewing software etc. With Plug & Play solutions you can have the latest new camera technology every 2-3 years and it will still be cheaper than buying traditional approaches that you are stuck with and as time goes by they become more difficult to support and use.i.e no manufacturer in the world makes video tapes any more, CD's (Hard-drives) are being replaced by digital.<br />
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Driver blames crash on sleep apnea, steering problems</span></h2>
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. — A school bus driver who crashed into a concrete post on Feb. 28 claims that her sleep apnea and bus mechanical problems may have contributed to the crash, the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Journal & Courier</em> reports.</div>
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Beverly Turner, 44, was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea and had experienced daytime sleepiness for as much as a year before the crash. Initially, Turner blamed her daytime drowsiness on the water pill she had to take with her blood pressure medication, but the crash prompted her to look further into her symptoms.</div>
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Turner also claimed to have reported steering problems on her bus to Tippecanoe School Corp. in early 2012, but officials said there were no records of her report, according to the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Journal and Courier</em>.</div>
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Texting involved in School bus, car head-on</span></h2>
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A teen driver and her 16-month-old baby are recovering Thursday night after crashing into a school bus head on outside of Moultrie.</div>
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It's a story we broke in an email alert Thursday morning. Troopers say 18-year-old Mandy Lynn Davidson was texting and driving on Highway 37, a mile west of Moultrie, when she crossed the center line and hit a school bus head on. </div>
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There were no children on the bus, but several people were injured.</div>
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This is what remains of 18-year-old Davidson's Lincoln Town Car after she hit an oncoming school bus as she was taking her 16-month-old son, Jonathan Conner, to daycare.</div>
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"This morning I was getting up and I just heard a loud bam! I came outside and looked. Didn't really see anything then I came down the step I saw the car," said onlooker Ken Bailey.</div>
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Georgia State Patrol troopers said Davidson was distracted by a text message when she swerved into oncoming traffic and hit the bus.</div>
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To Read Full Article: <a href="http://www.walb.com/story/18488402/gsp-texting-involved-in-school-bus-car-head-on">http://www.walb.com/story/18488402/gsp-texting-involved-in-school-bus-car-head-on</a></div>
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OCALA, Fla. — Five girls and two boys appeared in court on Saturday for allegedly severely beating a 13-year-old girl on a school bus, leaving the girl hospitalized, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">OCALA.com</em> reports.</div>
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Judge Frances King released the youths to their parents and placed them on home detention. They had been arrested and charged with felony battery and disorderly conduct.</div>
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The victim told deputies that it was her first day on the bus and no one would give her a seat. Someone threw a shoe at her, and when she threw it back, she was attacked by several people.</div>
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A new anti-bullying law before Gov. John Kasich would require
schools to address bullying that happens on school buses. It's a move a
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The Jessica Logan Act was passed by the legislature Wednesday and
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The legislation that goes before the governor is a weaker form of the
legislation which as originally proposed in the legislature asked for
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The legislation that goes before the governor is a weaker form of the
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Among the changes proposed by the Jessica Logan Act, schools would be
required to provide "age appropriate" education to students on
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"It was horrible. I had so much anxiety. I was scared. I didn't want
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Her son, 8-year-old Cayleb, has autism. She said that last school
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Phillips said at first her son sat at the back of the bus. She said
the bus driver had difficulty seeing in the back of the bus, complicated
by the fact Cayleb was short so he could not be seen over the seat.</div>
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Eventually, Phillips said, the driver moved Cayleb to the front of
the bus where there was a camera. But Phillips said the camera was
unable to see or film the first two rows of the bus where her son sat.</div>
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Cayleb has a now 11-year-old aunt, Adreana, who used to ride the
school bus with him. Adreana said she tried to stand up for her nephew,
but she could not fend off the bullies. And when she told adults, she
said, they ignored her.</div>
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"I told the bus driver but she didn't believe me because she had no
proof about it because they couldn't see the people up in front of the
cameras," Adreana said.</div>
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Phillips said the school district told her they had investigated and
that no bullying was occurring but her son and sister continued to
report the problem to her. She said she also saw a change in her son's
behavior. Eventually, she said, forced by the bullying problem, she
moved her son to another school district where he is happy now.</div>
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Phillips said she believes the Jessica Logan Act would have helped
her son and said districts need to take more responsibility for what
happens on school buses. She said she would like to see more aides
placed on buses to ride along and monitor students as well as more
education for drivers on how to handle bullies. She said she also hopes
the Jessica Logan Act will be signed into law.</div>
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"I think it's great. I mean I think the school should be held
accountable...these kids are getting hurt. There's kids killing
themselves over bullying. Something needs to be done," Phillips said.</div>
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Critics say the bill goes too far by addressing school buses,
relinquishing parents of their responsibility to handle how students
behave off school grounds.<br />
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. — A Tippecanoe School Corp. bus driver was
fired after investigators determined that she fell asleep at the wheel
of her bus and caused an accident, <em>WLFI</em> reports.<br />
Eight students were taken to the hospital after Bev Turner fell
asleep and her bus went off the road and down a ditch, crashing into a
concrete structure head-on. Thirty-seven students were on board the bus
at the time. Eight students suffered minor injuries.<br />
Superintendent Dr. Scott Hanback told the news source that a new driver has been given the route.<br />
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one-fourth of train operators and pilots admit that sleepiness has
affected their job performance at least once a week, according to the
National Sleep Foundation. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman
Deborah Hersman says that the new poll, which includes bus drivers,
"should serve as a literal 'wake-up call.'"<br />
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Jerry Brown signed a bill that restores funding for home-to-school transportation for the 2011-12 fiscal year.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">As</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">SBF</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/Channel/Regulations/news/2011/12/15/248M-slashed-for-Calif-school-transportation.aspx" style="color: #0a53a5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">in December, $248 million for free school bus service in the state was slashed as part of mid-year budget cuts.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/resources/Senate-Bill-81.pdf" style="color: #0a53a5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Senate Bill (SB) 81</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">, which took effect immediately, replaces the $248 million cut with an across-the-board revenue limit reduction at all school districts in the state.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Mike Rea, government relations chairperson for the California Association of School Transportation Officials (CASTO), had been working with his colleagues in the association on this effort since the cut to home-to-school transportation was proposed last year. Therefore, Rea said that last week’s development was welcome news. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">“This was outstanding news for school transportation in California,” he told</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">SBF</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">on Monday. “We are very grateful to all of the legislators who made this bill a priority. School transportation funding is reinstated for this school year, but an equivalent $248 million cut was made to school districts’ base funding — their ‘revenue limit’ for this year. This ‘fix’ provided for a more equitable solution to the cut that was necessary due to lower than estimated revenues in the state's budget.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Brown’s approval of SB 81 also pleased some legislators. Assembly member Wesley Chesbro (D-North Coast) praised the governor for his swift action on the bill — it was presented to him on Feb. 2 — and thanked him for signing it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">“I am thrilled that the Legislature and governor were able to come together to restore the funding that gets California’s students to school,” Chesbro said. “Home-to-school transportation is an essential service in my district. This bill was signed just in time to save the jobs of many school bus drivers and ensure that there is no interruption in getting kids to school.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">While the passage of SB 81 means that funding for school bus service is restored for this fiscal year, Rea noted that the work is not over in terms of restoring funding for the long term. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><br />
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CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — An investigation is underway into a fatal crash that occurred here on Thursday morning involving a school bus and a dump truck. <br />
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According to the Chesterfield Township Police Department, the school bus, which was carrying 25 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, was en route to Chesterfield Elementary School when the dump truck struck the driver’s side rear of the bus at an intersection.<br />
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The impact of the crash then caused the bus to strike a pole. One student was killed in the accident — an 11-year-old girl who was the daughter of a New Jersey state trooper — and 17 students sustained injuries.<br />
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The children were transported to hospitals for treatment of their injuries. Police later said that three of the children are currently in critical condition, and the condition of two other children is unknown.<br />
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The driver of the dump truck was Michael Caporale, 38, and the driver of the school bus was 66-year-old John Tieman. No charges have been filed on either driver at this point.<br />
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Officials said that a full forensic exam of all evidence, as well as numerous interviews and technical examinations will be conducted as the investigation into the crash continues. The process is expected to take several weeks to complete.</div>
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The Chesterfield Township Police Department said it will be the primary agency investigating the accident, with assistance from the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Fatal Accident Investigation Unit, the NJSP Troop C Criminal Investigations Office and the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. The NJSP Commercial Vehicle Inspection Unit will assist in the inspection of the vehicles involved.<br />
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Chesterfield Township School District Superintendent Ellen McHenry issued a letter to parents on Thursday following the accident.<br />
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“Our entire school family is sadly grieving the loss of one of our students as a result of the accident,” McHenry said. “We are continuing to monitor the conditions of those students who were injured in the accident at this time.” </div>
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