Many of the roughly 1.7 million pre-K to 12th grade students in Georgia have returned to class, and AAA says more than a million of these children ride school buses. The automobile organization also says school buses are their safest travel mode.
Risk increases in the moment students board or offboard their yellow behemoths. Surrounding drivers shoulder most of that blame.
Gail Coleman has driven school buses for Fulton County Schools for 40 years. At a recent “School’s Open, Drive Carefully” event at Heards Ferry Elementary School in Sandy Springs, Coleman reflected on how the driving environment has changed…