7 News Features: Danger Zone

WSVN -- Common sense tells you, you don't race through a school zone, but people do it.

Common sense tells you, you stop when a school bus is unloading children, but people don't.

Hilda Kaplan, Broward County bus driver: "They see the stop sign and they don't respect it. They just keep moving."

When it comes to kids, in Florida many people have no common sense.

Bertha Turner, Broward County bus driver: "You see it every day. They just don't respect the stop arms. It's the big yellow buses that they chose not to stop for."

The school bus stops, the arm comes out. Watch this YouTube video. The law requires you stop, but the drivers keep roaring by. This boy almost lost his life.

Alecia Andersen, AngelTrax: "Last year the numbers came back at 30,000 violations per day in the state of Florida."

Think about that: 30,000 drivers a day blow by young children getting off a bus all across Florida.

Joshua Burnside was so stunned by what he saw when his 5-year-old got off the bus in Fort Myers, he started videotaping the lawbreakers.

Joshua Burnside: "It makes you sick to your stomach."

He records car after car rolling by the bus with the stop sign out.

Joshua Burnside: "One of those days a kid will be hit."

Clearly, one day is coming.

Joshua Burnside: "They're not even hitting the brakes. They're not even touching the brakes. They're just going by the school bus."

The drivers either don't think or don't care, and the law is clear. You have to stop when the driver puts the sign out, but clearly, the law is not working. So now there is a push to put cameras on the buses to catch the dangerous drivers, and when they're caught, make them pay.

Alecia Andersen: "There's actually five cameras. We have two cameras that get the two closest lanes to the bus and two cameras that get the third and fourth lane. Then we have a camera that's on top of that box."

Broward is one of six Florida counties that is testing cameras on school buses. If you didn't think it was a problem in South Florida before, the daily videotape confirmed it.

Robert Wetzel: "Two of our buses have cameras on to actually catch people that run the stop arms when the stop arms are out, and unfortunately every month the numbers are going up and up."

If some parents and many bus drivers have their way, these lawbreakers will get a $250 ticket with the county and the school district sharing the money with the company that will monitor the cameras.

Robert Wetzel: "Anything that will help save a child's life, safety, anything to do with safety for a child, we're always on board with it."

Bus drivers are hoping parents will contact their Florida legislators to pass the law, not to make money for government agencies. To save children's lives.

Bertha Turner: "I just think the public should be mindful, because some of the people that are running the stop arms, we're transporting their children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins."

Pass a law to help protect the kids.

Alecia Andersen: "I just hold my breath and hope that nothing bad happens."

Because the cameras on buses show, eventually one of these dangerous drivers will become a deadly driver.

I'm Patrick Fraser, 7News.

WSVN -- Common sense tells you, you don't race through a school zone, but people do it.

Common sense tells you, you stop when a school bus is unloading children, but people don't.

Hilda Kaplan, Broward County bus driver: "They see the stop sign and they don't respect it. They just keep moving."

When it comes to kids, in Florida many people have no common sense.

Bertha Turner, Broward County bus driver: "You see it every day. They just don't respect the stop arms. It's the big yellow buses that they chose not to stop for."

The school bus stops, the arm comes out. Watch this YouTube video. The law requires you stop, but the drivers keep roaring by. This boy almost lost his life.

Alecia Andersen, AngelTrax: "Last year the numbers came back at 30,000 violations per day in the state of Florida."

Think about that: 30,000 drivers a day blow by young children getting off a bus all across Florida.

Joshua Burnside was so stunned by what he saw when his 5-year-old got off the bus in Fort Myers, he started videotaping the lawbreakers.

Joshua Burnside: "It makes you sick to your stomach."

He records car after car rolling by the bus with the stop sign out.

Joshua Burnside: "One of those days a kid will be hit."

Clearly, one day is coming.

Joshua Burnside: "They're not even hitting the brakes. They're not even touching the brakes. They're just going by the school bus."

The drivers either don't think or don't care, and the law is clear. You have to stop when the driver puts the sign out, but clearly, the law is not working. So now there is a push to put cameras on the buses to catch the dangerous drivers, and when they're caught, make them pay.

Alecia Andersen: "There's actually five cameras. We have two cameras that get the two closest lanes to the bus and two cameras that get the third and fourth lane. Then we have a camera that's on top of that box."

Broward is one of six Florida counties that is testing cameras on school buses. If you didn't think it was a problem in South Florida before, the daily videotape confirmed it.

Robert Wetzel: "Two of our buses have cameras on to actually catch people that run the stop arms when the stop arms are out, and unfortunately every month the numbers are going up and up."

If some parents and many bus drivers have their way, these lawbreakers will get a $250 ticket with the county and the school district sharing the money with the company that will monitor the cameras.

Robert Wetzel: "Anything that will help save a child's life, safety, anything to do with safety for a child, we're always on board with it."

Bus drivers are hoping parents will contact their Florida legislators to pass the law, not to make money for government agencies. To save children's lives.

Bertha Turner: "I just think the public should be mindful, because some of the people that are running the stop arms, we're transporting their children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins."

Pass a law to help protect the kids.

Alecia Andersen: "I just hold my breath and hope that nothing bad happens."

Because as the cameras on buses show, eventually one of these dangerous drivers will become a deadly driver.

I'm Patrick Fraser, 7News.