AAA Advises Motorists To Sharpen Skills With Return To School Amid Bus Driver Shortage

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Many students crossed the portion are heading backmost to the schoolroom connected Monday, and with a shortage of autobus drivers plaguing schoolhouse districts crossed the nation, AAA Mid-Atlantic is advising motorists to bounds distractions and enactment alert.

Ragina C. Ali, manager of nationalist and authorities affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic, said successful a merchandise the autobus operator shortage could pb to lengthier routes, longer stops, much parents opting to thrust their kids and much children walking oregon biking to school.

“While the instrumentality to schoolhouse and our roads volition look antithetic this year, our work for keeping students harmless hasn’t changed,” Ali said.

According to Maryland law, drivers indispensable halt astatine slightest 20 feet from a schoolhouse autobus that’s stopped successful the roadway with flashing reddish lights, unless they are connected the other broadside of a divided highway, AAA Mid-Atlantic said.

Not stopping tin pb to a $570 citation and up to 3 points tin beryllium enactment connected a motorist’s driver’s license.

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AAA Mid-Atlantic advised drivers to ever halt for buses, dilatory down, beryllium alert of the times erstwhile school-age pedestrians mightiness beryllium adjacent the road, destruct distractions and marque implicit stops.