{"id":252604,"date":"2026-04-30T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:55:11","slug":"driver-nearly-hits-child-boarding-a-school-bus-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252604\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver nearly hits child boarding a school bus in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RIVERVIEW, Fla. (Gray News) &#8211; A driver nearly hit a child who was boarding a school bus in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1689331052260881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1689331052260881\">Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>, a a driver illegally passed a school bus that was stopped to pick up a student. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The child was crossing the road to get on the school bus and was nearly hit by the passing car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen you ignore a stopped school bus, you are gambling with a child\u2019s life,\u201d Sheriff Chad Chronister said. \u201cThere is no excuse for this behavior. Slow down, stay alert, and stop when the bus stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said the driver was issued a notice of violation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIVERVIEW, Fla. (Gray News) &#8211; A driver nearly hit a child who was boarding a school bus in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110263,110265,110264,28,110262,30,29,276,18311,110266,110267,110269,110268,110261],"class_list":["post-252604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-child-nearly-hit-boarding-school-bus","tag-child-nearly-hit-by-car","tag-child-nearly-hit-getting-on-school-bus","tag-florida","tag-florida-bus","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office","tag-passing-school-bus","tag-passing-school-bus-florida","tag-passing-school-bus-hillsborough-county","tag-passing-school-bus-riverview","tag-riverview-bus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}