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Do you stop when a School Bus Stops with the "Stop sign" shown?

If a school bus stops and proceed to show the Stop Sign and you are on the other side of the street with a divider in the midddle, do you proceed to stop or is it legal to continue driving?

Public Comments

1. On a divided highway it is legal to proceed without stopping if you're on the other side of the divider (travelling in the opposite direction of the bus). Only traffic on the side of the road that the bus is on must stop if the highway has a physical barrier separating the directions of traffic flow.
2. Most places, all traffic, both ways, stops for a school bus with red flashers or a 'stop' sign. (Some cities permit traffic on the other side of the street to proceed.)
3. you stop,or get busted
4. This one is not so easy. Every drivers hand book that I have read says that if this takes place on a divided highway, you do not have to stop when traveling in the opposite direction. The question is specific in that it is a street. Now all highways are a form of streets but not all streets are high ways. So lets say that it is a street in a residential area that has nothing more then planters for a center divider. I would stop.
5. Stop or run over a kid. Your choice.
6. Regardless of the local laws i would stop. Because it could be my child that exit's the bus and decides to cross the road, divider or not. And i certainly wouldn't want to hit any child. Lets think about this. The bus is going to delay my route by less then one minute if i stop. If i don't stop then i risk hitting a kid who made a bad decision by crossing the street into oncoming traffic, which would impact alot of people for a long time.
7. Here is my question to you as a school bus driver. Who cares if it is divided or not. Do you know if that child is crossing? You see a yellow bus with the reds flashing and stop sign out...STOP...that simple. Give us the right of way and be patient. You never know where the kids are going.