CALDWELL, Idaho — Caldwell Police Department is reporting an unusual increase in school bus stop arm violations this year, with many of the offenders being unlicensed students driving themselves to school.

Officer Tom DeFur, who has been on the traffic team for four years, said this year has brought more cases of cars running school bus stop arms than usual. Many of those violations involve unlicensed, underage drivers taking themselves and classmates to and from school.

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"We're seeing that the violators are unlicensed and not educated in what to do with the bus arms. So they're just going through them or around them," DeFur said.

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