{"id":383699,"date":"2026-08-28T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:52:13","slug":"duval-schools-warn-drivers-after-school-bus-stop-arm-camera-captures-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383699\/","title":{"rendered":"Duval schools warn drivers after school bus stop-arm camera captures close call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/large_c205d447-84f4-4800-a618-768a980bac4b.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Stop-arm camera footage shows a car passing a stopped school bus on North Jefferson Street. Photo courtesy Duval County Public Schools\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"388\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/large_c205d447-84f4-4800-a618-768a980bac4b-696x388.jpeg\"   alt=\"Stop-arm camera footage shows a car passing a stopped school bus on North Jefferson Street. Photo courtesy Duval County Public Schools\" title=\"Screenshot\"\/><\/a>Stop-arm camera footage shows a car passing a stopped school bus on North Jefferson Street. Photo courtesy Duval County Public Schools<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NewsLine staff<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duval County Public Schools released stop-arm camera footage this week showing a car narrowly missing a student stepping off a school bus on North Jefferson Street, according to the district\u2019s website.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duvalschools.org\/article\/3094131\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStopping is not optional,\u201d Chayla Ferguson, district director of transportation, said of the footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video comes from the district\u2019s Bus Stop-Arm Camera Violation Program, which launched in April. Nearly 4,000 citations, each carrying a $225 fine, have been approved since the first day of school Aug. 10, according to the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State law requires drivers in all directions to stop for a school bus with its stop-arm extended, unless separated by a physical median.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                        Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/creekline-st-johns\/fall-sports-are-kicking-off-at-first-coast-ymca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fall sports are kicking off at First Coast YMCA<\/a>                                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Stop-arm camera footage shows a car passing a stopped school bus on North Jefferson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-383699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383699","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=383699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}