Stop stopping for school buses !

In New Mexico, even the emergency responders shut down lights and sirens,
New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 66 > Article 7 > Part 4 > § 66-7-347
New Mexico Statutes 66-7-347. Overtaking and passing school bus
Current as of: 2015 | Check for updates | Other versions
(1978)
A. The driver of a vehicle upon approaching or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped on the roadway, with special school bus signals in operation, for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children, shall stop the vehicle at least ten feet before reaching the school bus and shall not proceed until the special school bus signals are turned off, the school bus resumes motion or until signaled by the driver to proceed.
B. Every bus used for the transportation of school children shall bear upon the front and rear thereof a plainly visible sign containing the words “School Bus” in letters not less than eight inches in height.
C. The driver of a vehicle upon a highway with separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus which is on a different roadway or when upon a controlled-access highway and the school bus is stopped in a loading zone which is a part of or adjacent to such highway and where pedestrians are not permitted to cross the roadway.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-347, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 451.

Yes, kids shouldn't be walking towards a divided highway barrier, but.... their ball, pet, best/girl friend jumped it.
Do you really wanna be that guy? "just saying"

 

great illustrations, gracias!

 

In Michigan if there is a physical barrier between traffic lanes, you don't stop. If there isn't, you stop.

The biggest two problems we have here is this

One is people stopping on a freeway for emergency vehicles, you DON'T stop.

The other is stopping at every intersection when the lights are out. We are supposed to stop at major intersections. A lot of rear end accidents happen because no one gets you don't stop.

 

Ohio you stop if lights are out. Truet me. I got pulled over one night because of it.

 

Not if it's as described in OP. Ohio state law is the same. If it's divided with some sort of barrier you don't have to stop.

 

We spend $13,000 per student per year. They play dodge ball during school hours. I say, let them pretend the world is a real life game of Frogger.

 

Thanks for bringing up the subject, and I have only stopped on a "divided (non-barrier) highway.

With that said I did run into a somewhat similar situation a couple of weeks ago with a heavy haul unit coming at me.

This was on a 2 lane road with wide shoulders in northern Indiana (think double wide territory) I was heading west with no one in front of me this is coming up on a very small town, really just a wide spot in the road with a little strip mall on the north side.

At any rate, up ahead I spot an east bound wide load coming at me WITH a state Police escort, lights all a blaze, I slow to about 30, speed limit was 45, and I inch over onto the shoulder a bit, wide load had plenty of room but I did notice some mail boxes coming up on his side.

Would have been no issue and I would NOT have stopped for the SP escort, just roll on past, except this time a small pickup pulls out of the strip mall and turns into my lane traveling west also, sees the escort and locks them up, now I have no where to go because he literally pulled out in front of me, I got stopped because I was covering the brake when I saw him coming out, but that could have been bad.

I have never read, or been told about having to stop for a police escort on a wide load, and I have been out here a while, just never ran into that situation before, thoughts, experiences?, Heavy Haul guys? sorry to the OP for hijacking the thread.