This week, drivers ticketed for illegally passing a stopped school bus in Hillsborough County finally got the chance to challenge their violations.
“I didn’t know the bus was going to stop until I was already about to pass it,” one driver said during her appeal.
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“If I would have stopped, I would have caused a traffic hazard at that time,” said another.
“There’s really no wiggle room in the statue”
During the appeals, which were conducted over Zoom in front of an administrative law judge, dozens of drivers tried to argue why the bus cameras that caught them passing a school bus with its stop arm was deployed, got it wrong.
But often, the judge didn’t budge and referred to the state’s new school bus camera law to explain why the cameras got it right…