At Smithtown High School West, seniors that drive are forced to park in a specific parking lot depending on when they arrive to the building. For some students this means parking in the fourth parking lot from the school, where the buses also park at the end of the day.
The buses stop and wait for students while parked directly behind the seniors’ cars, potentially causing a safety hazard for the teens who have parked there. Some students have afterschool jobs and other obligations that they must attend at a specific time, so many don’t have the time or patience to wait for the buses to leave. They may try to get out of the lot with the buses still behind them, creating the possibility of hitting a bus that is parked.
Melissa McGuire, a senior here a Smithtown High School West who drives to and from school everyday, explains that she doesn’t like the set up of the fourth parking lot. If she doesn’t get to her car before the buses arrive, then she has to wait to leave. She has a babysitting job three days a week, so waiting in the school parking lot isn’t convenient for her.
Some students attempt to guide others out of their parking spots with the buses behind them, and on occasion they are successful, but the cars come very close to crashing into the parked buses.
The way that this parking lot is set up is a safety hazard, and the location of where the students and buses park should be altered. One solution to this problem would be to force the buses to park in a different area, away from student parking, to prevent accidents from occurring. Another solution would be to create a divider in the lot, so that one half of it will be for buses only, the other half for parking.
Something must be done about this matter to prevent future problems, and to protect the safety of student here a Smithtown High School West.
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