Children in the Clarke County School District might be a little safer during the new school year that begins this week.
Just in the last few months of the previous year, a newly-installed camera system helped police to nab 157 motorists ignoring the stop arm and flashing red lights of school buses as they picked up or discharged children.
Athens-Clarke County police said each violation represented “157 different times our children could have been fatally injured.”
Of the school bus stop-arm citations issued last school year, 103 drivers paid their fines.