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- Two drivers were captured on surveillance video veering onto sidewalks in school zones to bypass school buses in Brooklyn within a week
- The incidents have angered community members and leaders, who have called on the drivers to be located and charged
- In one of the incidents, small children could be seen getting off the school bus before being confronted by the car on the sidewalk
People in Brooklyn are looking for stepped-up enforcement after two different drivers veered onto the sidewalk in an effort to bypass school buses stopped in school zones within a week.
On Monday morning, a pickup truck, with flashing lights in its window, pulled out from behind a school bus on Harrison Avenue in Williamsburg and drove onto the sidewalk, forcing two students to get out of the way, video shows. The Satmar School was just a few feet away.
"Young ladies on the way to school -- it's insane," said former state assemblyman and Brooklyn community leader Dov Hikind.
"Only imagine if, God forbid, one of those kids had been hit," he said.
It was the second time in a matter of days that kids have had to dodge impatient drivers bypassing school buses and jumping the sidewalk in Brooklyn.
Last week, a car got extremely close to a young boy getting off a school bus in Borough Park. Once the child ran out of the way, the driver took off down the sidewalk.
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"I'd like those people arrested," said Hikind. "I'd like to ask them, 'What were you thinking?'"
