{"id":19976,"date":"2025-10-28T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19976\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:01:08","slug":"new-york-state-police-crack-down-on-illegal-passing-during-operation-safe-stop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19976\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police crack down on illegal passing during Operation Safe Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York (WBNG) &#8211; New York State Police remind drivers that it is illegal to pass a stopped school bus when its red lights are flashing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Oct. 22, troopers throughout the state participated in Operation Safe Stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the operation, troopers followed along bus routes to enforce traffic safety laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbng.com\/2025\/09\/03\/school-buses-hit-road-again-dmv-shares-important-reminders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbng.com\/2025\/09\/03\/school-buses-hit-road-again-dmv-shares-important-reminders\/\" target=\"_blank\">estimates that<\/a> every day, as many as 50,000 drivers pass school buses illegally across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Operation Safe Stop seeks to promote school bus safety through education and enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The project is a collaboration supported by the New York State Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee, the New York State Education Department, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nyapt.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Association for Pupil Transportation<\/a>, the New York State School Bus Contractors Association, the student transportation industry and state, county, city and local law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York (WBNG) &#8211; New York State Police remind drivers that it is illegal to pass a stopped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,13641,11,10,49,13638,13640,13639,51,50,747,13642,3905,13637,3904],"class_list":["post-19976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-association-for-pupil-transportation","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-department-of-motor-vehicles","tag-new-york-state-education-department","tag-new-york-state-governors-traffic-safety-committee","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-new-york-state-school-bus-contractors-association","tag-nysp","tag-operation-safe-stop","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}