Earlier this week a Montreal west island boy with cerebral palsy was dropped off at the wrong address in downtown Montreal. The 19-year old, who is confined to a wheelchair and unable to speak, was dropped off at the Montreal Children's Hospital, instead of day camp. The hospital and day camp have identical address numbers on different streets. The boy's mother discovered the situation when she called the day camp and found that he hadn't arrived.
The Montreal Transit Commission's adapted transport bus dropped the boy off, even though there was no one there to meet him.
In another case also this week, a New Jersey school bus driver and an aide have been fired after a 4-year-old was not dropped off and spent the morning in a parked bus while temperatures outside soared to over 100 F. The boy was discovered by a mechanic and required medical attention.
Many similar cases have been reported recently.
Without wanting to sound alarmist, the frequency of these incidents indicates that there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
One solution in use in some places is a buzzer at the back of the bus that needs to be manually switched off before the keys can be removed from the ignition. This however does not address the problem of dropping passengers off at the wrong place.
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