Yup, it's a trend! This is our third example of safety advice so glaringly obvious that we can only assume its target audience will need someone with a higher IQ to read it to them very, very slowly. This time it's not a press release. It's an actual, honest-to-God story from an intern at the Daily Press in Newport News, VA. Katie Bahr lowers the bar for local drivers, telling them "When a school bus stops and its red lights are flashing, no cars are allowed to pass the bus from either direction until it is moving again, state law says." For riders, Bahr turns to David Benware, the director of transportation at Hampton City Public Schools. "Make sure the bus has come to a complete stop before beginning to approach it from the outside or — if you're on the bus — before getting out of your seat." We'll add that children should remain seated when the bus is in motion.
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“When a school bus stops and its red lights are flashing, no cars are allowed to pass the bus from either direction until it is moving again, state law says.”
For a lot of drivers, that is actually raising the bar.
In Hampton, we don’t even have yellow school busses. For all the schools, the city contracts the Hampton Roads Transit to provide transportation to and from school with commuter busses. Those only have yellow flashing caution signs in place of the stop signs.
My fondest memory is when the bus driver called the cops because the kids in the back were unruly.
The city has a few yellow busses for activities and fieldtrips.
I believe Newport News has its’ own fleet of yellow busses.
P.S. Daily Press sucks.
“When a school bus stops and its red lights are flashing, no cars are allowed to pass the bus from either direction until it is moving again, state law says.”
In some states this is only the case if the road is not divided by a median however small. I might check the vehicle code of the state in question.
How about a federal mandate for safety belts on ever school bus, else they withhold federal funds to the states or school districts?
The fact there are no safety belts on most of them seems to escape everyone but police officers or anyone else who has been to a school bus crash and witnessed the chaos and tragedy that could (and should) have been avoided.
My children have never and will never ride on a school bus until they are so equipped.
Thanks to government control of education, the long bus is the new short bus.
Golf clap, Luther. Golf clap. :D
Cheers!
Good one, Luther.
Yes, the ridiculously obvious is ridiculously obvious to those of us here. Strangely, there are a lot of people to whom this is educational. If you don’t understand THAT, you are living in your own world.