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Parents concerned about dangerous drivers near bus stop
23ABC News
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8/17/2023
Latest Kern County, California and US & world news from 23ABC in Bakersfield, Calif.
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Marilee Ventura is not only a mother,
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but she's also a paraprofessional
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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
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Buena Vista School District.
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She says in the mornings they
00:38
ride the bus to school.
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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,
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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.
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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
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afternoon during pickup at Whitley.
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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
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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.
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I honestly have seen it in plenty
01:53
of the places. Unfortunately,
01:54
the same thing this morning at the school.
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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
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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
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Southwest Bakersfield for 23.
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ABC News. I'm Veronica Morley connecting you.
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