Parents concerned about dangerous drivers near bus stop

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00:00 Marilee Ventura is not only a mother,

00:02 but she's also a paraprofessional

00:03 within the Bakersfield City School

00:05 District, so she has a vested

00:07 interest in students making it to

00:09 school safely whether it's getting

00:10 to the bus stop from home or

00:12 getting to school from drop off.

00:16 Their kids and they need to slow down

00:22 'cause it's it's not cool to have that

00:24 image to even engraved into your head

00:26 where you have to pick up your child

00:28 and then the morgue. Marilee Ventura's

00:30 children are attending Dolores S

00:31 Whiteley Elementary School located

00:33 off McKee Road in the Panama

00:34 Buena Vista School District.

00:36 She says in the mornings they

00:38 ride the bus to school.

00:39 However, it's the bus stop just

00:41 outside her neighborhood that has

00:43 her concerned. There's actually

00:44 been times where. The bus will be

00:46 like right here. The kids will be

00:48 jumping from right here and having

00:50 to walk all the way over here and

00:52 with cars still going sometimes,

00:54 not even stopping for the bus,

00:56 and she's not the only parent.

00:57 This year's new community 2016

00:59 late 2016 has been off all day.

01:01 Reckless drivers, teenagers coming

01:03 and not, you know, not having any

01:05 concern about safety in the community.

01:07 Ventura's concern isn't only for

01:09 her children getting to school,

01:11 but also the lines of vehicles that

01:13 paved the schools pickup and drop

01:15 off zones as well. Here is this

01:18 afternoon during pickup at Whitley.

01:23 Is this kind of what you've been

01:25 talking about? Oh yeah, and then

01:27 you'll see like kids literally by

01:29 themselves, not even with the parent

01:31 walking right across the end.

01:33 The cars will be speeding by and as

01:35 a paraprofessional working with

01:36 special needs children at Owens

01:38 Elementary in the Bakersfield City

01:40 School District Ventura says she's

01:41 concerned for students throughout

01:43 Bakersfield. The cars just don't care.

01:45 It seems like the whole parking

01:46 situation is just hectic,

01:48 not just at that school,

01:49 but at a lot of schools.

01:51 I honestly have seen it in plenty

01:53 of the places. Unfortunately,

01:54 the same thing this morning at the school.

01:57 It was hectic. The people were getting

01:59 off not using the crosswalk and the

02:01 cars are just zooming by and under

02:03 California law, a driver can be

02:05 fined up to $1000 and have driving

02:07 privileges suspended for at least a

02:09 year for failing to stop for a bus

02:11 with flashing lights reporting in

02:13 Southwest Bakersfield for 23.

02:14 ABC News. I'm Veronica Morley connecting you.

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