{"id":71222,"date":"2025-12-04T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71222\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:35:22","slug":"fines-for-passing-stopped-school-buses-in-lee-county-start-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71222\/","title":{"rendered":"Fines for passing stopped school buses in Lee County start Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers in Lee County should make sure they do not pass a stopped school bus with its flashing red light on and stop arm out. <\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday, Dec. 8, cameras on the buses will catch you and you will be fined $225. This applies on two-lane and multi-lane roads when you are traveling in either direction. The only time you don\u2019t have to stop is when there is a raised median or physical divider of at least 5 feet separating traffic from the bus. <\/p>\n<p>During a month-long trial period before tickets were issued, more than 2,500 drivers would have been fined for violating this law.<\/p>\n<p>The camera system is in cooperation with the School District of Lee County and the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers in Lee County should make sure they do not pass a stopped school bus with its flashing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-71222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71222","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=71222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}