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Ingersoll Woman Charged With Failing to Stop for a School Bus.

Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:53

Oxford OPP say a woman from Ingersoll nearly hit a student when she flew past a stopped school bus with the lights flashing and the stop sign activated this morning.

TILLSONBURG - A 37 year old woman from Ingersoll has been charged for failing to stop for a school bus with the lights flashing. 

Police say the woman flew past the school bus on Oxford Road 119, north of Tillsonburg this morning around 8:30. An unmarked police cruiser witnessed the crime and charged the woman immediately. 

A student standing on the shoulder of the road was almost hit. 

The woman was charged with failing to stop for a school bus and was issued a Provincial Offence Notice.

Oxford OPP say this is extremely dangerous and could of possibly even been tragic, had she of hit that student. 

- Each school day in Ontario, approximately 800,000 students are transported in 18,000 school vehicles traveling nearly 2 million kilometres.

- There are approximately 700 companies operating school vehicles in Ontario.

- Ontario has approximately 54,000 school bus driver licence holders.

- School vehicle injuries represent less than one percent of total road injuries to youth in Ontario.

- School vehicle fatalities represent less than one-half of one percent of total road fatalities affecting youth in Ontario.

- When a school bus fatality does occur, it is most likely to happen outside the school bus when students are entering or exiting the bus.

- Our children are our future and each of us as citizens has a role to play in keeping them safe.

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