(4th in a series) School bus safety is no accident. Parents have a responsibility to teach their children how to stay safe in getting to and from school. It’s a dangerous world out there, and statistics prove it. Since the 1998-99 school year, 13 students have been...
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Teach kids how to be safe while getting on, off, and riding buses
(3rd in a series) Like they say: It’s a jungle out there. Not one populated with lions and tigers and bears, like in “The Wizard of Oz.” For kids, in one situation in particular – getting to school safely on a bus – the danger is other vehicles. Children need survival...
Motorists must take precautions for school bus safety
(2nd in a series) The first school bus was introduced in 1827. It was a horse-drawn vehicle used at a Quaker school, the Newington Academy for Girls in London, England, and was designed to carry 25 children. It would seem that in 187 years drivers would have learned...
School bus safety: A look back before going forward
(1st in a series) It’s one of the saddest types of accidents I can think of: When a child is hurt or killed getting on or off of the school bus. I’d like to spend my next few blog posts on school bus safety. I’ve posted several times on this subject over the past year...
State superintendent focused on school bus safety at news conference
It seems that only yesterday we were grumbling about the cold weather of a seemingly endless winter. Now the summer has flown by, and it’s time for the kids to head back to school. And time for the school buses to hit the road. And unfortunately, time that other...
Teen Driver Study shows opportunities missed for teaching
I have a friend who started driving when he was 9 years old. First the Cub Cadet lawnmower. Then various tractors, and by age 13, an F-150 Ford pickup around the farm and sometimes on back roads, hauling farm products, until he got pretty good. He failed his driving...
Bridges in Triad – and elsewhere – in bad condition
There’s some quibbling over the methodology used to determine it, but it does seem to be clear – the Greensboro area has some bad bridges. The News & Record reported recently that an overpass in south Greensboro was named AAA Carolina’s worst bridge for the third...
S.C. texting ban: Not much bite, but it’s a start
Welcome to the club, South Carolina. It’s a good thing, even if you’re coming in at a discounted rate. South Carolina officially banned texting while driving last week when Gov. Nikki Haley signed the text ban bill into law. It’s the 44th state to ban all texting...
Gov. McCrory calls for crackdown on texting while driving
RALEIGH, N.C. – Governor Pat McCrory dropped in on a meeting of the North Carolina Statewide Impaired Driving Task Force last week and added another item to its agenda: texting while driving. It’s an appropriate issue to put on the plate. The National Highway Traffic...
South Carolina considering texting-and-driving ban
Our neighbor to the south may finally join the majority of the United States in banning text messaging while driving. A bill outlawing tapping out messages while in motion is slated for debate by lawmakers from both the South Carolina House and Senate. The ban would...