LEWISTON – In special training next month, police will give school bus drivers a reminder about the seriousness of speeding.

Two bus drivers were clocked going 30 in a 15-mph school zone last week as police ran radar on East Avenue in front of Lewiston High School, said Lt. Michael McGonagle.

The bus drivers weren’t pulled over because police officers had other vehicles pulled over at the time, McGonagle said. Otherwise, they would have been. Bus drivers “are subject to the same laws as everybody else.”

Police notified the Lewiston School Department, which contacted Hudson Bus Lines. The company is contracted to bus Lewiston students.

“The next morning in the break room we talked about this,” Hudson Bus Line General Manager Todd McCollough said Monday. Speeding, especially in a school zone, could result in a driver being reprimanded or losing their job, he said.

The training session with police should slow drivers, he said.

On the same day that police ran radar on East Avenue, Ruth Cannon of Pond Road complained to the school department that she was behind a school bus going faster than the posted limits of 25 and 35.

There were children on the bus, she said Monday. School buses go past her house all the time and for the most part drivers are cautious, she said. “This is the first time I’ve been behind one grossly speeding.”

Lewiston School Department Transportation Director Butch Pratt said he heard “a couple of buses were going a bit faster than what the speed limit allowed, and we’re concerned with that.” Drivers have been warned, he said.

He occasionally hears complaints about bus drivers speeding, but it is not a widespread problem, he said.