Video Of What You’ll Look Like If You Drive Past A Stopped School Bus

Six Connecticut communities have entered contracts with a Rhode Island-based company, SmartBus Live, to mount video cameras on school buses and send $450 traffic citations to drivers who pass a bus with its red lights flashing, either from the front or behind.

Municipalities running the camera-enforcement program with SmartBus Live are New Britain, West Hartford, Windsor, Wolcott, New Canaan and Hamden. More towns and cities are in the process of signing up for the program that was legalized under a little-noticed 2011 bill. Read about it all in this Courant story.

Violators are sent a link and passcode to a SmartBus Live website to view their alleged violation before they decide whether to contest their ticket in traffic court.