We recently covered School Bus Safety Week. This year’s theme aims at reminding drivers to stop for school buses when the stop arms are out and lights are flashing.
A heads-up Street Smarts reader noted there was a column entry a few years ago that noted there are exceptions to that rule.
State law says that on divided highways, and on highways with three or more lanes, drivers going in the opposite direction as a stopped school bus can keep driving.
The law uses the words “marked traffic lanes.” For clarification, that does include center turn lanes, according to the Washington State Patrol. And it’s not just state highways.
“It’s on any road,” Trooper Inci Yarkut said.
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