In January 2003, when the California Vehicle code was revised with regard to school bus signals and school stops, the Clovis Unified School District noticed an “alarming increase of “red light runners’ at their school bus stops.

The Clovis Unified School District’s (“CUSD”) solution was the installation of CRS’ G2 Fusion LED Warning Light System on their buses. To determine their effectiveness CUSD conducted a two month long survey.

In the first month prior to installation of the G2 Fusion LEDs, they recorded an average of 11 motorists per day that ran the red lights at one of their bus stops. In the next month, after they had installed the G2 warning lights, red light running incidences dropped 91%.

‘”Without a doubt,” the CUSD director of transportation reported, “the G2 system provides our student an increased safety level while loading or unloading at our bus stops.”

They implemented an aggressive plan to outfit as many of their buses with the G2 system as possible. Two years later the CUSD reported that the effectiveness of the G2 system in deterring red light runners had not diminished.

In 2008, further surveys continued to demonstrate the reduction of incidences of 90%. The CUSD reports that their drivers made specific requests to operate the G2 equipped buses and that “even during these difficult budget times, we plan to continue to retrofit the remaining bus fleet with G2 Fusion LED Warning Systems as well as specifying the G2 System on all of our new school bus orders.”


Letter from CUSD Director of Transportation Services, Feb. 2006
Letter from CUSD Director of Transportation Services, June 2008

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