{"id":4848,"date":"2025-10-16T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:18:09","slug":"bensalem-school-bus-violation-hot-spots-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4848\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem School Bus Violation &#8216;Hot Spots&#8217; Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Now that school has started, the Bensalem Township Police Department will be cracking down on drivers who illegally pass school buses.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police and the Bensalem Township School District are continuing their partnership to cite vehicles that fail to stop for the flashing red signals on school buses.<\/p>\n<p>The program has reduced the number of violations by more than 17 percent since it launched.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police said they issued over 5,000 civil violations during the 2024-2025 school year. <\/p>\n<p>Police and school officials said the numbers remain too high, with children still at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the lights on a school bus flash yellow, you should hit your brakes to slow down and be prepared to stop,&#8221; police said. &#8220;When the lights turn flashing red, your vehicle must stop immediately before passing the school bus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are targeting specific &#8220;hot spots&#8221; for the illegal activity on Knights Road between Street Road and Dunksferry Road, as well as Bristol Pike between Hulmeville Road and Tennis Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty is a $300 civil violation issued to the vehicle owner failing to stop, police said. The violation does not have any points on a driver&#8217;s license and doesn&#8217;t impact car insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Now that school has started, the Bensalem Township Police Department will be cracking down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-4848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}