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%\ '$9,' +$=/(',1( 6WDII :ULWHU It has been over four years since Xzavier and Mason Ingle, 6, and their older sister, Alivia Stahl, 9, were killed after being hit by a pickup truck while trying to board a bus on SR 25. The driver, Alyssa Shepherd, ran through the bus’s stop arm. Unfortunately, in spite of mass media attention and increased penalties passed into law in 2019, Rochester Community School Corporation bus drivers continue to report an alarming number of motorists ignoring stop arms. “We just had another one,” said Skeeter Daugherty, school resource officer for Rochester schools on April 19. “We’ve had 39 for the school year … at least one per week.” According to Kim Long, RCSC transportation supervisor, drivers call in each violation; then the bus camera is pulled and information
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retrieved is forwarded to the police. “We’re seeing people who are just not paying attention,” she said, describing one incident in which the car was “way down the road” with several seconds to see the bus’s flashing lights and stop arm. “It just went flying by, no brake lights or anything.” Fulton County Sheriff’s Department patrol officers follow up on the violations. “Nine times out of 10, the driver readily admits to the violation,” said Sheriff Travis Heishman. In 2019, new laws were passed in Indiana under the MAXSTRONG School Bus Safety Act (named for Mason, Alivia and Xzavier), which increased penalties for passing a stopped school bus with the stop arm extended. A person who recklessly passes such a bus may be charged with a class A misdemeanor, potentially resulting in a $10,000 fine and license suspension. The charge increases to a level 6 felony if some-
one is injured, then a level 5 felony in case of death. School districts are also required to review bus routes and safety policies each year by Sept. 1. FCSD also takes part in periodic “blitzes” as part of the Stop Arm Violation Enforcement campaign, which uses grants provided by the National Traffic Safety Administration and Indiana Criminal Justice Institute to pay for overtime patrols. Brittany Ingle, the mother of the children killed on SR 25, has
become an activist for stricter stop arm safety laws across the country. During National School Bus Safety Week in October 2022 she was invited to speak in Mississippi, which, along with many other states, still lacks stop arm cameras like those now used in Fulton County. “I’m honored to have a law in Indiana that can serve as an example for everyone else,” said Ingle. “We need to educate because that’s how people learn. … I can’t bring my kids back, but if I can help others that’s amazing.”
New name plate We hope you noticed a change of the front page name plate for the Shopping Guide News in this week’s publication. The name plate was changed to give the publication a fresh, modern appeal. The Shopping Guide News
has been published for 66 years and we think the previous name plate may have been in existence since the initial issue. The name of the publication is in a Cambria type face, with the publication information in a Stone sans type.
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