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10/16/2007: Operation Safe Stop

Operation Safe Stop is a proactive approach to educate the motoring public that passing a stopped school bus, when children are loading or unloading, is both dangerous and illegal. Law enforcement agencies, school transportation providers, pupil transportation associations and PennDOT have combined their efforts to raise public awareness about the potential consequences, and reduce the occurrence of illegal school bus passes.

Over the past ten years, PennDOT, along with the law enforcement agencies and pupil transportation associations, has conducted Operation Safe Stop. On Wednesday, October 24, 2007, the 11th Annual Operation Safe Stop will occur. On this day, Transportation Services, Inc., in cooperation with Souderton Area School District, will participate by having their drivers document any illegal passes occurring on their routes during the day.

National School Bus Safety Week is Oct. 22 to Oct. 26, 2007. Motorists are encouraged to remember safe driving principles whenever they take to the road and to come to a complete stop when children are loading or unloading from a stopped school bus.