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School Bus Passing Law - Need Facts
Posted by:
DirtMcGirt
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Date: June 11, 2012 02:53PM
Child safety... I get it, but can't these things pull into apt complex's to load up and unload? Do they really need to stop in the middle of overly traffic'd routes during rush hour?
At any rate... I need the VA law where it's said you are REQUIRED to stop on the other side of a "double-yellow" divided road. My instinct is that you do NOT have to stop but everyone does just because everyone else in front of them are.
Does someone have the facts here?
At any rate... I need the VA law where it's said you are REQUIRED to stop on the other side of a "double-yellow" divided road. My instinct is that you do NOT have to stop but everyone does just because everyone else in front of them are.
Does someone have the facts here?
Re: School Bus Passing Law - Need Facts
Posted by:
J.T.
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Date: June 11, 2012 02:58PM
Re: School Bus Passing Law - Need Facts
Posted by:
You do have to stop
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Date: June 11, 2012 03:06PM
Unless there is some sort of permanent median or barrier in the road, you have to stop for a bus on the opposite side of the street.
Re: School Bus Passing Law - Need Facts
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VA State Code
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Date: June 11, 2012 03:33PM
Per Virginia State Code
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-859
46.2-859. Passing a stopped school bus; prima facie evidence.
A person driving a motor vehicle shall stop such vehicle when approaching, from any direction, any school bus which is stopped on any highway, private road or school driveway for the purpose of taking on or discharging children, the elderly, or mentally or physically handicapped persons, and shall remain stopped until all the persons are clear of the highway, private road or school driveway and the bus is put in motion; any person violating the foregoing is guilty of reckless driving. The driver of a vehicle, however, need not stop when approaching a school bus if the school bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, on an access road, or on a driveway when the other roadway, access road, or driveway is separated from the roadway on which he is driving by a physical barrier or an unpaved area. The driver of a vehicle also need not stop when approaching a school bus which is loading or discharging passengers from or onto property immediately adjacent to a school if the driver is directed by a law-enforcement officer or other duly authorized uniformed school crossing guard to pass the school bus. This section shall apply to school buses which are equipped with warning devices prescribed in 46.2-1090 and are painted yellow with the words "School Bus" in black letters at least eight inches high on the front and rear thereof. Only school buses which are painted yellow and equipped with the required lettering and warning devices shall be identified as school buses.
The testimony of the school bus driver, the supervisor of school buses or a law-enforcement officer that the vehicle was yellow, conspicuously marked as a school bus, and equipped with warning devices as prescribed in 46.2-1090 is prima facie evidence that the vehicle is a school bus.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-859
46.2-859. Passing a stopped school bus; prima facie evidence.
A person driving a motor vehicle shall stop such vehicle when approaching, from any direction, any school bus which is stopped on any highway, private road or school driveway for the purpose of taking on or discharging children, the elderly, or mentally or physically handicapped persons, and shall remain stopped until all the persons are clear of the highway, private road or school driveway and the bus is put in motion; any person violating the foregoing is guilty of reckless driving. The driver of a vehicle, however, need not stop when approaching a school bus if the school bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, on an access road, or on a driveway when the other roadway, access road, or driveway is separated from the roadway on which he is driving by a physical barrier or an unpaved area. The driver of a vehicle also need not stop when approaching a school bus which is loading or discharging passengers from or onto property immediately adjacent to a school if the driver is directed by a law-enforcement officer or other duly authorized uniformed school crossing guard to pass the school bus. This section shall apply to school buses which are equipped with warning devices prescribed in 46.2-1090 and are painted yellow with the words "School Bus" in black letters at least eight inches high on the front and rear thereof. Only school buses which are painted yellow and equipped with the required lettering and warning devices shall be identified as school buses.
The testimony of the school bus driver, the supervisor of school buses or a law-enforcement officer that the vehicle was yellow, conspicuously marked as a school bus, and equipped with warning devices as prescribed in 46.2-1090 is prima facie evidence that the vehicle is a school bus.