Road-rule practice: Meeting and passing school buses

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1. On an undivided road, outside any controlled-access-highway loading zone, a properly marked and equipped school bus has stopped to receive schoolchildren and its red signal lights are flashing. What must you do when meeting or overtaking it?
Stop only when following the bus, not when meeting it.Proceed after a brief stop even if the red lights continue flashing.Stop immediately and remain stationary while the flashing red lights operate.Slow and pass if no child is visible in your lane.
2. A school bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, across a median from your roadway. Does the bus-stopping provision require you to stop for a bus on that different roadway?
Yes, unless there are at least three lanes in each direction.No, because the same exception applies to any road with more than one lane.Yes, because a median never affects the school-bus rule.No. The provision has an exception for a bus on a different roadway of a highway with separate roadways.

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On an undivided road, outside any controlled-access-highway loading zone, a properly marked and equipped school bus has stopped to receive schoolchildren and its red signal lights are flashing. What must you do when meeting or overtaking it?
Correct answer: Stop immediately and remain stationary while the flashing red lights operate.
The school-bus provision requires an immediate stop and keeping the vehicle stationary while the red signal lights operate. The undivided road excludes the different-roadway exception, and the stem separately excludes a controlled-access-highway loading zone.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1075, (a), Passing school bus, with (b) exceptions excluded by scenario; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗
A school bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, across a median from your roadway. Does the bus-stopping provision require you to stop for a bus on that different roadway?
Correct answer: No. The provision has an exception for a bus on a different roadway of a highway with separate roadways.
The exception concerns a highway with separate roadways and a school bus on a different roadway. It is not a general exemption for all multilane roads and is distinct from the controlled-access loading-zone exception.
Source: 23 V.S.A. §1075, (b), highway with separate roadways and bus on a different roadway; Vermont Statutes Online body read October 1, 2026. Publisher compilation includes the 2025 session; later 2026 amendments not independently reconciled. ↗

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Road-rule practice: Meeting and passing school buses

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