May Days

May can be a great month.

Usually warm and sunny, May helps chase the rainy cold days away.

Kids are often seen running about, riding their bikes, skipping along, or bouncing their balls.

Most seem lost in the pure joy of childhood.

For drivers much extra care needs to be taken, as we too can be a little smitten by the warming days, our thoughts may drift to the garden we are planting or thinking about the nice barbecue party to come.

We bus drivers need to keep our focus on the road ahead, we need to watch carefully for the unexpected movements of kids on the edges of roadways, and the lack of attention that other drivers lost in their own thought may have.

Parents need to frequently remind their kids that the roadway is unsafe and to pay attention to traffic at all times.

Yes May can be great .... but not if you fail to make it to June!

Please, play safe, be safe, stay safe.