You do not have to stop for oncoming school bus on 5(+) lane roads (transplants, 2013)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I'm posting this since no one reads the manual. Getting tired of people stopping on Duraleigh for an oncoming bus when it is not required. They don't let first graders walk across 60 feet of roadway.
Yeah...well...I understand the law but a few years ago I saw a kid almost get hit running across the road to try and catch up to their bus. It was a four lane with a middle turn lane. Scared me to death and although it was not my car that almost hit the child it certainly brought home the fact that sometimes better safe then sorry trumps the law.
I'm posting this since no one reads the manual. Getting tired of people stopping on Duraleigh for an oncoming bus when it is not required. They don't let first graders walk across 60 feet of roadway.
I'm posting this since no one reads the manual. Getting tired of people stopping on Duraleigh for an oncoming bus when it is not required. They don't let first graders walk across 60 feet of roadway.
Transplants dont read the handbook. They move here thinking they know how to drive on NC roads and find they dont have time to read the handbook and prefer looking at a cheat sheet as a way to pass. Im not dishing, just stating what I have seen three or four times a year on this forum since 2007.
In case anyone think I am being facetious, go to state forum and search "cheat sheet" and there over 30 threads on the quest for a way around skipping reading the book.
I think this is question on school bus passing is on the test. If they would read the most important chapter in the book, chapter 4, they would remember this.
There's been enough kids killed by buses in this state -- one is too many -- that stopping for 2 or 3 minutes is a 'better safe than sorry' bet in my book.
Plus = isn't a lot of Duraleigh just a four lane road w/no turning lanes? In which case, according to #3 above you should be stopping.
I always get confused on one road that I travel on the way to work. Most of it is four lanes w/ a median - no problem, opposite side doesn't stop. Part of it is four to five lanes plus a turning lane - also not a problem. But there is a section, maybe 50 yards long, that is simply four lanes. What are the chances that I would encounter a bus there? You guessed it, happens all the time! I know that I need to stop, but the cars behind me don't always see it that way. Yikes!
Transplants dont read the handbook. They move here thinking they know how to drive on NC roads and find they dont have time to read the handbook and prefer looking at a cheat sheet as a way to pass. Im not dishing, just stating what I have seen three or four times a year on this forum since 2007.
In case anyone think I am being facetious, go to state forum and search "cheat sheet" and there over 30 threads on the quest for a way around skipping reading the book.
I think this is question on school bus passing is on the test. If they would read the most important chapter in the book, chapter 4, they would remember this.
It's true, we didn't read the book. There was no question regarding school buses on my test, I definitely would have remembered getting it wrong!
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