The dashcam owner commented that he’s forwarded the footage to local police.
Presumed Pennsylvanian and Redditor /u/LuckyStinkyNemo1 posted up dashcam footage from Coraopolis to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing the harebrained moment a driver in an Audi decided to blow by a school bus despite the bus’s lights flashing and stop sign arm extended.
Check out the dashcam footage for yourself below.
[oc] audi stops then goes at school bus stop. that guy is getting a ticket.
byu/luckystinkynemo1 inIdiotsInCars
The incident happened at the intersection of Coraopolis Heights Rd. and Valentine Dr. at a school bus drop off (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As OP’s video shows, he’s stopped at the intersection as a school bus pulls up to let kids off.
We see our Audi driver stop after seeing the bus’s flashers and stop arm extended.
Impatient after several seconds, the Audi driver ignores the bus’s warnings, and speeds past.
Thankfully, no kids were disembarking off the bus at the time.
11 seconds after the Audi driver blows by, kids are seen crossing in front of the bus, the whole reason drivers are supposed to stop in the first place.
OP replied that he’s forwarded the footage to local police for review.
“The police have the video,” OP says.
In Pennsylvania, like most states, drivers are required to stop for school buses when they’ve stopped with their flashers on with stop arm extended.
While police likely can’t fine the offending Audi driver based on OP’s dashcam footage alone, if this bus is equipped with an automated side stop signal arm enforcement system (a camera placed near the stop sign, its sole purpose to catch offenders,) the driver may be subject to a Civil Penalty, a $300 fine.
“That is super dangerous. I really hope the school bus driver reports it and he gets a ticket,” /u/AngusMcTibbins commented.
“My local school district has started to put cameras on their fleet due to the number of entitled idiots who won’t stop,” /u/BrokeStill replied.
“Even police, fire trucks and ambulances have to obey that stop sign and make full stops. The bus driver has to immediately halt all children and retract the sign to let the emergency vehicles through. Failure to do so, the bus driver can get in trouble. If the emergency vehicles fly through, they can also get in trouble,” /u/CowJuiceDisplayer added.
As /u/AngusMcTibbins commented, this is serious business.
According to the Penn Capital Star on their report on the matter,
“There are few statistics on the extent of deaths and injuries from passing stopped school buses. Pennsylvania reviewed crash records at Stateline’s request and said 12 such crashes occurred in 2022 and 13 in 2021, with one death in each year — one a student, one a parent — and 23 injuries across both years.”
All those crashes and deaths were entirely preventable.
Hopefully that Audi driver is prosecuted accordingly.
