Incident involving minibus trying to pick up students was a miscommunication

Incident involving minibus trying to pick up students was a miscommunication

This Jan. 15, 2013 file photo shows school buses lining up to drop off students in New York. New York school districts may now mount speed cameras on the stop arms that extend whenever a bus is stopped under the new law signed Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Drivers caught on camera illegally passing a stopped bus would face fines of $250.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Police say an Incident involving a minibus trying to pick up students in Ronkonkoma Monday was a miscommunication. Officials say the students did not recognize the driver or the bus so they refused to board and the man drove away. A few minutes later, the students’ assigned district bus picked them up and drove them to school

The Connetquot School District released a statement Tuesday saying in part, “It has been concluded that yesterday’s event was the result of a miscommunication between transportation providers regarding individual bus routes.”

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)