With school back in session, a Kamloops woman wants drivers to stop for a school bus if it has its lights on.

Adriana Mailloux tells NL News there has been more than once instance where that has happened to her five-year-old son on East Shuswap Road.

“My son just started kindergarten and on his first day riding the bus, he was getting on the bus for the very first time and this man going the opposite direction just kept creeping forward because he did not want to wait for the bus to be done loading,” she said Friday.

“And then yesterday, when he got off the bus and was required to actually cross the road, a vehicle heading in the opposite direction blew right past the bus.”

Mailloux is pleading with people to stop for school buses, noting the drivers will let vehicles pass when it is safe to do so.

“Please keep our community and our kids safe. Please take an extra minute and stop for the school bus,” she added. “And for kids, please remind them to be vigilant when they are crossing the road and [tell them] to look in both directions.”

“Don’t assume that people are obeying the rules of the road as they should be.”

Mailloux says she has been walking across the road with her son who hasn’t said anything yet about the incidents.

But she says she fears for many of the other older children who have to cross the road on their own.

In B.C., drivers can be fined $368 the first time they fail to stop for a school bus that has its lights on, going as high as $1,000 for their third offence.