North Carolina bus driver caught on video putting students in danger

FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — New video shows a bus driver putting North Carolina students in danger.

The Forsyth County bus driver dropped the students off, but the bus’s stop sign wasn’t out and its lights weren’t on.

A driver in another car posted the video after stopping behind the bus.

School district officials saw the video and said they are investigating the incident.

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"Our bus drivers are given extensive direction on these procedures as set forth in the state-required driver training,” officials said in a statement.

No children were injured in the incident, but there were several serious crashes at bus stops across the country in the past week.

A bus driver hit seven people in Tampa on Thursday while students and adults were waiting at a bus stop. That same day, a 7-year-old was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Pennsylvania. A bus driver hit four children in Indiana on Tuesday, killing three of them.

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