School Buses And Trash Trucks Run Stop Signs
Exclusive: Our Camera Caught School Buses And Trash Trucks Running Stop Signs
POSTED: 10:14 pm EST November 18,
2009
UPDATED: 6:46 am EST November 19,
2009
ATLANTA -- The signs clearly say "stop", but time and time again, CBS Atlanta cameras caught school buses and garbage trucks running stop signs.The driver of one Atlanta garbage truck completely ignored the stop signs. She didn't slow, and she even posed for our camera when she rolled by.Moments before, our camera caught the same garbage truck driver rolling through the same three-way stop. This time she did it making a left turn.Trash trucks aren’t the only ones we caught running the stop signs where Clifton Road and Van Epps Street intersect in Southeast Atlanta.Our camera also caught an Atlanta Public School bus running the stop sign.“Most people I see them go straight ahead and don’t even yield,” said Dennis Brown.Dennis Brown’s house is near the intersection. Brown says he watches vehicles run the stop signs all this time.Brown said it’s dangerous and he wants drivers to stop.“That is a stop and they have two of them over there on both sides. They say stop that means stop. Most of the time I see yield!” said Brown.CBS Atlanta also caught a DeKalb County school bus. It slowed down, but rolled right through the stop sign and made a right turn.“Wow that doesn’t seem safe at all,” said Janna Murray.Janna Murray’s house is also near the intersection. Murray feels it’s just a matter of time before something bad happens, if school buses and big garbage trucks keep running the stop signs.“Cause it’s a lot of kids that live around here,” said Murray.CBS Atlanta's Tony McNary went to Atlanta Public Schools with tough questions for the transportation director.Harold Walker told McNary, “I don’t like to be on camera right now.”No one with the school district would give CBS Atlanta an on-camera interview. A spokesman told us bus drivers should obey traffic laws and the district will look into this incident.We received a similar response from DeKalb County Schools. No one with Atlanta's Public Works Department returned our phone calls.
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