Submitted Dashcam Video: This Must Stop Before a Child Gets Killed

This happened on Rt. 9 today.

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Sam i am
2 years ago

All these so called health and safety laws make zero sense. You would never send you child down the block and tell him that he can cross rt 9 because there is a law that says that vehicles have to stop for pedestrians, so why do we let are kids cross in front of a bus. Kids don’t belong in the street Period!!!!!!!!!!

Dave
2 years ago

It doesn’t matter who’s right or wrong busses shouldn’t be picking up or drop off on busy streets like rt 9
There’s was already a kid hit by a car on Madison and Courtney a few months ago

Parent
2 years ago

I hope they catch that driver and he goes to jail forever.

Yingerman
2 years ago

Not entirely the drivers fault.

It’s clear that he could not tell why the car in front of him stopped so he passed on the right.
This is a common maneuver in Lakewood due to the congestion.

Fix the congestion.

Moshe
Reply to  Yingerman
2 years ago

Umm Yingerman,

Did it enter your mind to think WHY the car in front stopped? Maybe he has a good reason for stopping, and you should at least check before you pass him on the shoulder and RUN SOMEONE OVER???

New Yorker in Lakewood
Reply to  Moshe
2 years ago

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Moshe,

Do you check for a few seconds when you have to drive around and pass a car on the right (as I’ve grown accustomed to have to do both in Lakewood and in Brooklyn on the narrower of the streets) ?
Why or why not?

Don’t attack Yingerman for a point that you and I and anyone would’ve done without having seen the bus. Sometimes it’s obvious why someone stopped, but here it doesn’t look like that to me.

CommunityMember
Reply to  New Yorker in Lakewood
2 years ago

How could you not see a huge yellow bus with flashing lights?

Outsider looking in
Reply to  Yingerman
2 years ago

If that driver hit another car, perhaps yours, or a child crossing the street, what would your thinking be then?
I can’t fathom how the vehicle passing all the other stopped cars couldn’t see the stopped school bus.
You should stop making excuses for bad/usage driver’s.

Anonymous
Reply to  Yingerman
2 years ago

Passing on the right is illegal. Only in Lakewood is this even remotely tolerated. Anywhere else you drive you would be ticketed.

New Yorker in Lakewood
Reply to  Anonymous
2 years ago

So you don’t carefully pass on the right when a left turning car is holding up traffic? (Lakewood 3rd world infrastructure – like, wow, Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn has an impossible luxury – left turning lanes at EVERY intersection!)

Jeremiah
Reply to  Yingerman
2 years ago

Passing on the right, driving on the shoulder is illegal. Correct.

What is even more remarkable is the 2 additional cars pulling out when they should be stopped. Bad driving behvoir begets more bad behavoir.

BH
2 years ago

I would hope a bus never drops off a kid and makes him cross route 9.

To yigerman go learn driving safety again
2 years ago

Basic driving rule only pass on left, never pass on right
Yes it is the drivers fault for not following basic driving safety protocols

Baruch K.
2 years ago

The car is not at fault nor is the bus driver, This will never stop unless it’s permitted for buses to go on a slant, in Brooklyn all the bus drivers are blocking the entire Street by going on a slant, this is a must in a busy town.

Im a bus driver and talking from experience, I have every day several cars passing my red stop sign.

Outsider looking in
Reply to  Baruch K.
2 years ago

Why is the car not at fault?

New Yorker in Lakewood
Reply to  Baruch K.
2 years ago

The buses doing it in Boro Park aren’t doing it officially legally either, but I’m all for it.

Anonymous
2 years ago

90 percent of Lakewood’s traffic issues are explained in one sentence: people don’t follow the rules and this affects the safety, quality and length of fellow driver’s commute time.

Anonymous
2 years ago

I have a number of videos of these dangerous situations, mostly caused by the careless bus drivers.
They will close the lights before the young child finished crossing Forest Ave, Ocean Ave, Central, etc

I gave them exact times and bus numbers, they say they have cameras on each bus.

They don’t care, do you care? What are you doing about it?

The LSTA, JAYS buses, etc all laugh it off.

Carol
2 years ago

Everyone is such a rush. Unfortunately, Lakewood is so congested there is no solution. I have been in this area since 1980 and Route 9 was a country road still chicken farms. The town grew too quickly without the proper planning and now it is the worst city in Ocean County for driving and walking. Again no solution, just hope the children are taught to watch for cars all the time.

New Yorker in Lakewood
Reply to  Carol
2 years ago

I don’t get it about the planning boards; will we build until there are so many cars that there will be permanent gridlock-paralyzed roads?

Chaim
2 years ago

99% of Lakewood’s traffic issues could be explained in one word “over-development”

Outsider looking in
Reply to  Chaim
2 years ago

Building’s don’t cause traffic accidents.

Mr. Check it out
2 years ago

It is legal in NJ to pass a school bus at no more than 10 m/h when the bus is loading or unloading children at the school and is dropping them off at the same side as the school. That is the law.

Jeremiah
Reply to  Mr. Check it out
2 years ago

Incorrect. You don’t pass a school bus unloading/loading kids, period.

Mel
Reply to  Mr. Check it out
2 years ago

Mr. Check It Out, it is only legal if you are on the opposite side and there is a median or divider. This had neither.

me
2 years ago

Clearly the driver didn’t see the bus because your car was blocking his vision…

Jeremiah
Reply to  me
2 years ago

That doesn’t explain the other two cars pulling out in front of the bus to enter route 9.

Mr. Check it out
2 years ago

Why don’t you check the law instead of assuming you are correct?

PUNYLOVESBLUE
2 years ago

People don’t pay attention when they drive period

New Yorker in Lakewood
2 years ago

@Outsider looking in
Oh, are buildings empty? No, they come with cars. Are we going to build and add more cars and more cars and more cars until you won’t be able to get off your block from the complete paralyzed gridlocked unmoving streets?

Bus driver
2 years ago

Jermia: you are allowed to pass a school bus picking up and dropping off by a school. But if I remember correctly only at 5 mph not 10 mph.
Your also allowed to pass a bus stopped on the other side of a divider at 5 or 10 mph i don’t remember the speed