It was just a husband and wife in a quick kiss on the side of the road. But five West Amwell Township Elementary School students weren’t sure what they saw as their bus passed the couple Thursday morning.

So when the bus got to school, they reported what they’d seen. “If you see something, say something” is the message they remembered.

Superintendent Michael Kozak notified the township police. Their investigation “revealed that the interaction was friendly and between a husband and wife,” he said in a letter to parents.

“The wife stopped her car on the side of the road to wish her husband, who was taking a morning walk, a good day. Although this report resulted in a non-threatening situation, I commend the girls for reporting the incident, as I always encourage children to report any suspicious activity to an adult.”

At the school, "we treat the safety and security of your children as a top priority," he continued.



The students "reported an incident that to them might be unsettling," he said in an interview.

“We appreciate that, and we applaud those students for speaking up and talking to adults” about what they’d witnessed. “In this case, it was no more than a friendly encounter on the side of the road.” But from the bus window, the students couldn’t tell just what was going on “and therefore they reported it,” he explained.

“We would rather have the police investigate and find out that it was a non-confrontational event, than find out that something serious had occurred,” he said.