Barbara Lorge was heading to Deer Park for a manicure, like she does every two weeks.
After leaving her Dix Hills home, Lorge, now 78, turned right onto Deer Park Avenue, a divided highway of two traffic lanes on either side of a median, with driveways and side streets branching off.
Across the grassy chasm that morning in September 2022, Lorge saw a school bus stopped for a pickup. Cars behind the bus waited for students to board. Across the street, traffic continued moving and Lorge felt she couldn’t stop safely.
More than a month later, Lorge opened her mailbox to find a citation. She’d been spotted by one of the cameras mounted on school buses across Suffolk in recent years to catch drivers who don’t abide the bus’s stop-arm and flashing red lights. Lorge is one of thousands of drivers to be ticketed since the program launched in 2021.
Can you relate? Link in bio on Newsday’s investigation that raises questions about whether the program is about child safety of revenue.
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