Video shows children dropped off at wrong bus stop in Edmond

The parents said the bus eventually showed up at the right stop but without their children.

The parents said the bus eventually showed up at the right stop but without their children.

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The parents said the bus eventually showed up at the right stop but without their children.

Doorbell camera video showed children getting dropped off at the wrong bus stop in Edmond.

The parents told KOCO 5 they didn't know where their two five-year-olds were for an hour after they were dropped off at the wrong stop on Monday. The parents said the bus eventually showed up at the right stop but without their children.

They didn't know where they were until a neighbor drove by, saying two children had knocked on his door.

"It was terrifying," said Jonathan Vanderlois, whose children were dropped off at the wrong stop.

Vanderlois described the hour-long ordeal his family went through on Monday evening after his two five-year-old children were dropped off nearly half a mile away from their actual stop. The two children were supposed to be dropped off at Nappa Valley Road and Bristol Park Boulevard, but they were nowhere to be found when the bus pulled up.

Vanderlois's girlfriend went to the driver.

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"There was another child on the bus that actually said, 'A little boy and a little girl? They were dropped off at the last stop.' And so my girlfriend was like, 'Where’s the last stop?' And he goes, 'Back that way,'" Vanderlois said.

With not much to go off, Vanderlois' girlfriend looked while he headed to where the children were picked up from: Charles Haskell Elementary. Eventually, a neighbor drove up, and the children started knocking on doors.

"They showed wisdom beyond their years. They knew they needed to find an adult. They knew they were not in the right spot. What they would do is one would stand on the sidewalk, while the other one went to the door, and they would alternate back and forth," Vanderlois said.

Going forward, Vanderlois said he would like to see a better system of keeping track of when and where children get off.

"Take the extra 30 seconds. I know it can be inconvenient, but couple extra seconds could have completely avoided this situation, in my opinion," Vanderlois said.

KOCO 5 reached out to the Edmond superintendent who said that following that incident, "Younger students either have a wristband or a tag on their backpack identifying their bus. The drivers have received updated printouts of which students get off at each stop and been reminded to individually check each student as they exit the bus."

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