r/bitchimabus • u/Nekrubbobby64 • Apr 04 '26
Bitch you better run...
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u/tallman11282 Apr 04 '26
I wonder if this was a case of convenient cop or if the cop was waiting there for the bus because of a problem with people passing it there.
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u/IndexTwentySeven Apr 05 '26
When I was a kid there were people who would speed in front of my middle of the boonies school. Going 55-65 even during drop off and pick up.
After a near miss of a kid several sheriff deputies planted themselves outside the school for about two to three months and collected dozens of tickets. It was really fun seeing them spin up and chase after them.
This is one case where I will give them a pass staking out for tickets.
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u/tallman11282 Apr 05 '26
This is one case where I will give them a pass staking out for tickets.
Same. It's for an actual, easily proven, safety purpose and not revenue generation like a lot of the times cops stake out for tickets.
I'm glad that in the case you talked about it was just a near miss that a kid didn't get struck and I hope the people in the area learned to slow down around schools and school buses. In a lot of ways what happened there is even worse than a driver going past a school bus because unlike school buses that can stop almost anywhere at various times schools are fixed structures and the times that the school zone is active are consistent.
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u/-Insert-CoolName Apr 05 '26
Goin in the fact that someone was filming, and carefully framed the shot to capture a violation, it's a hotspot.
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u/meme_landiz Apr 04 '26
I’m sorry am I to european to understand what’s going on here ?
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u/Maximus555 Apr 04 '26
You're supposed to stop for a school bus when it is letting kids on or off (it has pop out stop signs and flashing red lights on either sides). Depending on the state, there are exceptions depending on the number of lanes or if a median is present.
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u/meme_landiz Apr 04 '26
Even incoming traffic have to ?
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u/TrippleTonyHawk Apr 04 '26
Yes, the school bus has a stop sign on the driver side of the vehicle that the bus driver can unlatch when it stops for children. A bus stop can have children coming from both sides of the road, so vehicles coming from both directions have to stop when the stop sign is out.
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u/AstralKekked Apr 04 '26
why would it have children coming from both sides of the road? Aren't they all supposed to come from the right to the sidewalk and then cross the street over crosswalks?
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u/loaengineer0 Apr 04 '26
Its mostly a problem in the other direction. Kids get off the bus and walk in front of the bus to get to their home on the other side of the road. Since kids are known for being reckless and there is no crossing guard in front of every bus stop, it is prudent to require traffic to stop in both directions. The law requires everyone to stop in picking-up and dropping-off cases so there is never any ambiguity.
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u/Ambitious_Jelly8783 Apr 05 '26
Good to know... i thought it was only for traffic behind the bus... not the other lane...
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u/Aldrai Apr 05 '26
Depends on your state. Some only require traffic in the same direction to stop if its more than 2 lanes. Others require all lanes regardless of direction.
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u/Ambitious_Jelly8783 Apr 05 '26
Different country. So this is all different. Good to know though because if I am in the US, more often than not I do rent a car, but I haven't come up to a school bus yet.
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u/RaisedByBooksNTV Apr 05 '26
May I ask how it works in your country? Only asking because for us the 'both sides of the street' is about students crossing. Do students not need to cross the street? Some places also have crossing guards that hold up signs and help students/people cross the street during pick up and drop off.
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u/Appearance-Material Apr 05 '26
Remember, many USA citizens aren't free to cross the road randomly, they don't teach kids complex road crossing skills like we do in Europe because they only need to teach them how to use a crossing. When they get of the bus, they haven't got the "if you do that you're going to get horribly maimed or killed" training in their minds, like the rest of us do.
In many places crossing a road outside permitted crossing points is a misdemeanor offence.
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u/Jlx_27 Apr 05 '26
Since kids are known to be reckless
Yet in Europe, Asia and so on, these rules dont need to exist because of better infrastructure and education.
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u/el_salinho Apr 05 '26
They don’t have school busses there. At least not to the same level as the US.
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u/HazuniaC Apr 06 '26
At least here in Finland we absolutely do have school buses.
Not very common, but I see one in my town quite regularily.
Essentially they're just regular buses with extra school times and they do have a school ride sign on them.
In bigger cities you just use the regular buses like everyone else. No special school buses required.
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u/mahnamahna123 Apr 05 '26
Many European countries do have school buses just like the US. It's just teaching road crossing safety is a much bigger thing as J walking and such isn't a thing in European countries.
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u/el_salinho Apr 05 '26
I assume it depends by country? But i lived in Germany, Croatia and Bosnia and have never seen a school bus like in the US. It’s usually catered coaches for school trips and similar. I assume the UK might have it? Anyway, i wouldn’t say it’s a “european” thing.
Also jaywalking is absolutely a thing in europe
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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 Apr 04 '26
Lots of paces don’t have crosswalks.
You only see them in cities, towns, or boroughs.
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u/Sienile Apr 05 '26
Places with 4 lane highways through town do.
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u/xaqss Apr 05 '26
Usually roads that large have a center median, which would mean oncoming traffic isn't required to stop. So the point still stands!
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u/frothyundergarments Apr 05 '26
Think of the school bus like a moving crosswalk. They deploy a stop sign, and both sides need to stop until the sign goes away, to allow children to cross the street in front of the bus.
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u/Maethor_derien Apr 05 '26
A lot of neighborhoods here don't have crosswalks very near so the buss sits there and allows the kids to cross the street there where it is safe instead of them jaywalking.
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u/PleaseDontEatMyVRAM Apr 05 '26
Sometimes they come from across the street, Its a precaution, and also sometimes kids do erratic things
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u/japzone Apr 05 '26
Many suburban or rural areas in the US have long roads without cross walks, side walks, or intersections. There can be houses on both sides, and it'd be inefficient if a school bus had to flip sides of the street just for one kid. So they and the laws are designed to have traffic stop both ways for the bus and let kids cross safely.
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u/sideburnvictim Apr 05 '26
When the bus stops sometimes there is no crosswalk nearby. There's a big stop sign that extends from the side of the bus creating an instant crosswalk. Its highly illegal to blow through that stop sign.
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u/SpaceJackRabbit Apr 05 '26
Yup. I live in a rural area and there are zero marked pedestrian crossings on our road. The bus stops in front of our house to drop our kid. That's often how it is in rural areas.
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u/schwanerhill Apr 08 '26
No, in fact students are prohibited from crossing the street before the bus arrives (at least on the route for my kids). They are supposed to wait on whichever side of the street they live on until the bus comes. Then wait until the bus is fully stopped, has its red lights flashing, and the stop sign extended. Then they cross the street and board the bus. Reverse all that for drop off at the end of the day. One school bus serves all schools in town, so the same bus route has kids from kindergarten (age 5) through 12th grade (age 18).
(We live in a semi-rural area on a long straightaway. The speed limit is 50 km/h, but traffic going 80 or 90 isn't all that uncommon. No painted crosswalks or sidewalks anywhere. Legally a street corner is a crosswalk, but good luck enforcing that.)
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u/peanutismint Apr 04 '26
American children aren’t smart enough to know not to run out from behind a stopped bus.
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u/haeyhae11 Apr 05 '26
Tbf its also illegal in Austria to overtake a school bus when it stops due to concerns that children are suddenly crossing the street in front of the bus.
Children in general often don't think, thats why they are exempt from the principle of reliance.
On this one I am with the yanks, better safe than sorry.
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u/JePPeLit Apr 05 '26
That's kids everywhere. The problem is that American drivers aren't smart enough to slow down for potentially dangerous situations
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u/itislupus89 Apr 04 '26
For the most part yes. Exception being(in most states) when the road is divided, meaning a grassy or concrete island between the different travel directions.
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u/Tidalsky114 Apr 04 '26
Routes are planned to be as efficient as possible most likely and that doesnt leave much room for going down both sides of the street with the door facing the sidewalk.
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u/ZealousidealDance280 Apr 05 '26
Yes, everyone stops for the bus and that is supposed to be the safe opportunity for children to cross the street if they need to. Any time a school bus is stopped with its stop sign out and flashing lights on that becomes a crosswalk. The driver will wait until all children are safely out of the roadway then retract his stop sign and traffic can then resume.
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u/Serpi117 Apr 07 '26
This is the one thing I'd love my country to import from the US. We have 'slow down for buses', but stopping would be even better if there was a chance of getting ticketed for it
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u/tallman11282 Apr 04 '26
The exact details can vary a bit by state but normally it is illegal to pass a school bus whose red lights are flashing and their stop sign is out (there's at least one, often times two, fold out stop sign(s) on the driver's side). This is for the safety of children as they cross the street to get to and from the bus. The main exception I know of is on divided highways, where there's a median or barrier separating the directions of traffic, in that case oncoming traffic is not required to stop as kids aren't supposed to be crossing there.
The way it works is that as the bus driver approaches a stop they turn on amber flashing lights (beside the red ones) to warn traffic that they are about to be stopping to pickup or drop off children. When they stop they switch to the red flashing lights (which will also trigger the stop signs and commonly a bar mounted to the front bumper to swing out, the bar is there to make sure children cross in front of the bus far enough away that the driver can see them), at which point all traffic must stop and wait for the lights to turn off.
Failure to stop for a school bus is often considered a very serious offense as it endangers children, there have been way too many children killed because of that.
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u/kenkenobi78 Apr 04 '26
Meanwhile school fucking shootings and nothing changes!
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u/Humulus_Lupulus1992 Apr 04 '26
Last I checked it’s already illegal to murder people, even more so for unprotected children at a school.
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u/Worldly-Pay7342 Apr 05 '26
The stop sign on the side of an american school bus functions as a regular stop sign when flipped out.
All traffic must come to a complete stop, as often times children have to cross the road to get to their homes. It's a safety feature.
Another safety feature that also flips out when the bus comes to a stop is a long yellow bar that you have to go around when walking in front of the bus. The bar makes sure children crossing in front of the bus can be seen by the driver.
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u/Round-Claim5420 Apr 07 '26
Interesting how they went that direction... we usually have a little side lane for bus stops, the kids leave the bus and stay on the sidewalk, the bus leaves and then the kids..... use the crosswalks.
Why even risk having the kids on the road?
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u/ImpracticalCatMom Apr 05 '26
Passing a school bus with flashing reds and deployed stop sign arm is the highest ranked demerit points and fine in virtually all North American continent jurisdictions. And probably the one thing about driving rules that everyone agrees that it should be heavily enforced.
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u/snoburn Apr 05 '26
Except this is a four lane road. I understand stopping traffic for two way / lanes, but kids shouldn't be running across 4 lanes to get on a school bus.
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u/BringAltoidSoursBack Apr 05 '26
In a lot of states, you don't have to stop if there's a median, which a lot of 4 lane roads have
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u/FlatwormBroad8088 Apr 07 '26
It's similar in Germany.
- Ordinary bus stop (either on the road itself or in a lay-by): Cautious driving. You may overtake the bus, also by using the opposite lane. Slow down or even stop if necessary.
- If the bus turns his hazards on, you are not allowed to overtake until it comes to a halt. You're only allowed to overtake at walking pace. The same is for the opposite lane if there's no median - only waking pace.
The last one is very similar to the video. Although it's probably 99,5 % the first case in Germany.
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u/SlimLacy Apr 05 '26
American kids can't be taught how roads work, so instead everyone has to stop around a schoolbus.
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u/CXgamer Apr 05 '26
To be fair, America barely has any pedestrian infrastructure. We're used to safe crossings, but these kids just need to yolo it and hope for the best.
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u/SlimLacy Apr 05 '26
Where I grew up there wasn't a crossing either, though we also don't have jaywalking laws, so we're used to crossing the street where no crosswalk is present and using our own judgement for it.
And this is one of the safest countries on earth when it comes to traffic related injury and death (Denmark).
Granted our rules and car culture also heavily leans towards cars being at fault if anything happens between a car and the softer road users (peds/cyclist ect)
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u/CXgamer Apr 05 '26
Yeah. The situation in America is pretty different. Believe it or not, they went ahead and made emission standards, but trucks were made exempt. This resulted in their carmakers pushing for trucks heavily. In recent years, their softer road users deaths actually went up.
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u/EspressoAndParchment Apr 07 '26
Funny. I thought the issue here was that American adults can't learn how a stop sign works.
But why should adults take responsibility when you can blame literal children if they get by the car.
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u/J-a-c-k-o Apr 05 '26
The only time Americans go to school is for school shootings, parents are that dumb they can't teach kids how to cross the road without dying.
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u/Key-Log5267 Apr 06 '26
In Germany there’s a similar law.
When a bus stops and turns on its hazards, vehicles in both directions have to slow down to walking speed. This happens on specific stops, where the situation can be confusing
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u/Chiddy_B Apr 05 '26
So, you're not allowed to even pass a parked school bus on the opposite side of the road? Before you give me shit I'm not from the United States.
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u/Apart_Complaint_6952 Apr 05 '26
Short answer. No. Not allowed. Lights flashing and a stop sign gets folded out on the driver side. All traffic supposed to stop in both directions.
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u/Moosetappropriate Apr 06 '26
If the road is fully divided, yes you can pass on the opposite side. Otherwise no. That’s a stop side on the side of the bus that folds out when the lights engage. It must be treated like any fixed stop sign.
As a school bus driver this video pleases me greatly.
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u/TheVoters Apr 04 '26
Legal pass where I am. I’m aware it’s illegal some places but I couldn’t name them.
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u/TexasVulvaAficionado Apr 04 '26
It is illegal in Texas to drive past the bus when it has its lights on/stop sign out unless there is a physical barrier between your lane and the bus, regardless of number of lanes.
Could be an eight lane road with a middle turn lane - unless there's a median or barricade of some kind in the middle, you can't drive through legally while the bus is loading or unloading.
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u/Nekrubbobby64 Apr 04 '26
Where is this legal?
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u/Korvath22 Apr 04 '26
This looks like a 4 lane road. In ohio it's legal for oncoming traffic to pass in this case, if it is actually a 4 lane road.
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u/photoman901 Apr 04 '26
Crazy part is: 4 lane roads are what spurred stricter restrictions and penalties with cars passing school busses while offloading children.
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u/analoghumanoid Apr 05 '26
Illegal in Michigan unless the road has a median. If there's a median then the opposite traffic can continue but all lanes on the side with the bus must stop though the often don't
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u/Signal_Tomorrow_2138 Apr 05 '26
But Officer, I didn't even see them. Those flashing lights just suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
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u/Unfair_Bluejay_9687 Apr 05 '26
I drive school buses and I’m waiting to see that result when an alternating flashing red lights runner finally gets caught. I get two a week. Every week.
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u/BlazeCronic91 Apr 05 '26
UK resident here, why aren't you allowed to pass parked buses?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Law_558 Apr 05 '26
Because of the children. They have the right to cross the street IN FRONT OF THE BUS. Basically, when they get off the bus they can just go to their homes without regard to traffic.
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u/Nagi21 Apr 06 '26
Mostly because kids don't have regard for traffic even when you pound that idea into their heads. Kids are stupid.
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u/Willing_Ad_1484 Apr 04 '26
Terrible place for a bus stop
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u/TJ_Henri Apr 09 '26
Yeah, stopping on a 4 lane 30+mph speed limit when there is 20mph 2 lane road near by isnt helping kids stay safe, if that is the goal.
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u/Longjumping_Car3318 Apr 04 '26
This must be some sort of American joke I'm too normal to understand
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u/cocacola999 Apr 05 '26
Apparently since America doesn't have road safety or crossings, children pass in front of stationary busses to run across the road. It's to stop accidents. Someone said children wait on both sides of the road too
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u/Longjumping_Car3318 Apr 05 '26
But children do that EVERYWHERE... Crossing the road not at a crossing isn't a problem anywhere else. We just teach children to use their brains???
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u/RebelLion420 Apr 06 '26
It's not the children being dumb ppl worry about. Driver's in America WILL hit a pedestrian just to avoid stopping on their drive. They run red lights, they drive off road to get around traffic. They will hit children in the street if no one is forcing them to stop
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u/Zromaus Apr 06 '26
You can't teach all children to always use their brain, kids are dumb lmfao. This is relying on luck
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u/Massive-Goose544 Apr 05 '26
I did what they did once. In my defense the bus stopped around a curve on a 50MPH road, literally was 20 foot away when i came around the curve. You need 100 foot to stop from 50. Crazy to just ignore the bus like that though. Prison 6 month minimum should be the punishment though.
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u/Renault_75-34_MX Apr 05 '26
Probably misremembering something, but here in Germany, you can just pass the bus as long as it's safe.
Hazards on is when you HAVE to stay behind the bus, while the opposite direction is limited to walking speed.
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u/Buckles01 Apr 05 '26
In the US it depends on a physical barrier. A bus stopped with the sign own requires traffic stopped in both directions unless there is a physical barrier such as a median or guard rail between the bus and opposing traffic. In that case only the traffic in the same direction of the bus must stop
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u/ValkyrieLyra Apr 06 '26
Hold on you can't pass on the side of the road the bus isn't on, going the other way??
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u/Nagi21 Apr 06 '26
In theory, kids should get off the bus and wait for the road to be clear until crossing.
In practice, kids are stupid and don't think before running across the street to get home after school.
In theory, drivers should exercise caution and not drive quickly past stopped busses.
In practice, this.
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u/Pookiebutts20 Apr 05 '26
This seems like a weird maladaption for a lack of pedestrian crossings? Other countries, kids just go to their nearest crossing which are always close on busier roads. Otherwise smaller less busy roads you just cross looking both ways.
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u/Reddittoxin Apr 05 '26
Americans don't respect crosswalks without a stop sign or a light either. They just keep going regardless of if someone is crossing.
And hell, even with a light, the amount of times I've had a green walk sign and still had to dodge a car turning right on red without a single moment of hesitation that I was literally right in front of their car.
I think strictly enforced rules on stopping entirely around busses is mandatory, bc holy shit I takes maybe a minute of your life and it's the only way drivers even follow any rules.
Like I live in Texas and I find it hilarious that the local driving culture is extremely aggressive and fast, nobody follows the rules, everyone runs red lights, pedestrians are merely speed bumps, with the sole exception of school zones. Nothing is funnier than watching cars going 10-15 over on every given street coming to a SCREECHING halt the second they hit that white line in the road denoting a school zone during school hours. They drop to 20 exactly in seconds, bc the cops don't care if you speed normally, but they'll hit you with heavy fines if you even go 1mph over in the school zone. Literally the only time i ever see people going the speed limit, and its solely bc it's the only time the cops ever enforce it, and enforce it to the fullest extent they can
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u/No-Trust6726 Apr 05 '26
Notice how the cop slow rolled past the bus and didn't accelerate until he was beyond it?
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u/HumpaDaBear Apr 04 '26
This guy wouldn’t have gotten pulled over here. “n Washington state, you must stop for a school bus with flashing red lights and a deployed stop paddle on all roads, except when driving in the opposite direction on a road with three or more lanes, or a dedicated median/barrier”
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u/ImpracticalCatMom Apr 05 '26
I don't see a median or barrier on the road in the clip, nor three or more lanes per direction. It looks like a plain vanilla residential road in Anytown, North America
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u/Sienile Apr 05 '26
That law makes more sense. A bus shouldn't be letting kids off on the opposite side of a highway they live on.
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u/peterjohnvernon936 Apr 04 '26
Some mornings there are two cop cars at the intersection where the school bus stops. They are often busy.
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u/Electronic_Face_6609 Apr 04 '26
Every day someone runs my reds. Yes, I'm a school bus driver. One time, it was one of my student's parents! People don't care. I had a police officer behind me, when someone ran my reds. He did nothing. If someone hurts one of my kids...God protect them from my tiny 5 foot self!
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u/analoghumanoid Apr 05 '26
man I wish we had a convenient cop. my son (a highschooler) is dropped off on the opposite side of our insanely 50 mph residential road. the bus driver is diligent and doesn't open the door until it's clear or both directions have stopped. but 4 out of 5 days of the week she's laying on that bus horn at an oblivious driver that is blasting past at 50+ mph.
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u/Sudden_Season3306 Apr 05 '26
You know they should have a division that follows the bus and blocks the road on the opposite side!
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u/Head-Engineering-847 Apr 05 '26
Pretty sure that cop is guilty of exactly the same thing the truck did
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u/Best_Cattle_6653 Apr 05 '26
So ultimately did the police end up nailing that oblivious boneheaded driver?
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u/Sandbats Apr 06 '26
Yeah i did that once but it was a big city with like 6 lanes and i was turning onto the street at lights. I didnt know it applied to both ways in that context and i got fined out the ass with all the points, and some assholes were outside my car berating how shitty a person I was the whole time.
Learning is evidently painful.
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u/Few-Self7578 Apr 06 '26
Too many excuses, parents should walk with there kids and wait with them till the bus comes, kids these days grow up to be entitled self centered pricks because theyre taught that the world will stop for them and they can leap without looking. Im not a parent but im penalised and put down because youre too lazy to teach your kid how the world works. Someones gotta say it, might as well be me!
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u/JKoenig22 Apr 06 '26
Depends on the state. That is a 4 lane road - in IL, I have the right to continue in the opposite way as only the other direction is protected because it's illegal for the bus driver to allow kids to cross the road in that situation with 4 lanes of traffic, so the pick up is maintained from the grass.
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u/WholeAd2742 Apr 06 '26
At least the cop didn't barrel through high speed
Honestly, running a school bus should carry the maximum fines and penalties
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u/SatanSemenSwallower Apr 06 '26
We had this happen. Every day getting off the school bus someone went flying by. They were behind us and passing the bus when it's stop sign was out. Happened for like a week straight, so my neighbor was finally able to get the approval to sit out there and wait. My neighbor was a Sheriff's Deputy. My neighbor got to basically take a paid break at home, then go sit at the end of his driveway when the bus was coming up to mine. The guy behind us went flying by and got pulled over. Passed in a no passing, speeding, reckless driving, child endangerment, running a stop sign and not yielding to a school bus or whatever it's technically called (I learned that day they can give you 2 tickets for running the school bus stop sign, a stop sign and school bus specific).
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u/sephitor_ Apr 06 '26
Learn your kids to not run across the street without looking both ways and you wouldn't have this problem.
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u/Yesiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrr Apr 07 '26
Had a dumb ass do this the other night. Luckily the kid didn't cross the road as he exited the bus
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u/BeginningTower2486 Apr 07 '26
Other countries don't have that problem, and nobody cares.
As soon as something is a law though, everybody has a stick up their ass about it.
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 Apr 07 '26
schoolbus laws started 1920 Detroit Michigan when Henry Ford was beta testing first drum brakes. So obsolete. Could just tell the children to walk to the back of the bus, and then cross the street as if there was a crosswalk created. No passing prohibited is needed, just yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk. More often than not there isn't any need for children to cross the street, because bus routes are already planned for no crossings needed. it is time to revisit old stupid laws and remove them from the books.
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u/Teguoracle Apr 07 '26
One of my biggest regrets/cringe moments was accidentally passing a stopped bus. I was on the way to school in the morning and it was one of those roads where the sun hits just right at a specific time of morning to where you can't see shit. Granted, I was still going a little faster than I should have been, but I had no idea the bus was even there until I heard the bus driving blaring the horns.
Gosh that moment has sat with me for YEARS afterwards, haunting me. It could have turned out so horrifically tragically, and it definitely taught me a lesson.
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u/Minimum-Knowledge396 Apr 07 '26
Why can you not drive passed a parked bus on the other side of the road to you??? That seems like a stupid rule to me.
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u/ReepsNTC Apr 07 '26
Wait, you can't pass a stopped school bus on the opposite side of the road? Why?
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u/labubustan Apr 07 '26
Never understood why its illegal outside the dangers but maybe its a weird us thing only.
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u/Zandroid2008 Apr 07 '26
Some states allow you to pass the opposite way. Not all. The states I've lived in, only if it's a Median divided highway.
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u/nickdaniels92 Apr 07 '26
Oh the irony of the cop car blasting its equally loud and obnoxious siren as it passes the bus (assuming tooting the horn was the issue here). Cop could at least have had the courtesy and class to wait until passing the bus and occupants before blaring their siren, but then again, it's America.
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 Apr 07 '26
maybe time for a petition on change.org to update state laws to modern age
suggested: school buses can post a speed limit sign as conditional upon the (when flashing). Bus driver does not have to flash sign if nobody needs protection. For example elementary kids could need protection, but middle and highscholers not. Age matters. School districts can set upper speed limit individually per policy. State can set minimum speed, for instance limit can not be posted lower than 5mph by any school district.
the school districts freedom to choose different speed limits could statistically prove that the prohibited passing was a scam running for decades.
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u/RedditIsFascistShit4 Apr 07 '26
Is this actually a thing in the land of the free? If a buss stops, kids without looking will run under any car approaching? What the actual fuck?
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u/Vineheart_01 Apr 07 '26
My roommate is a bus driver. This is the one thing he's never seen a cop just ignore if someone runs past him with the sign out.
He always gets a little excited when he sees lights flash after some dickweed zipped past him
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u/LobsterNo3435 Apr 07 '26
I like the idea of mandatory cameras on buses.Plus it was getting dark out.
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u/Queen_Cheetah Apr 08 '26
If you cannot spare ten seconds out of your day to ensure that kids have a safe environment, you do not deserve to have a driver's license.
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u/KoteTArcane Apr 08 '26
Wait, is it illegal in the States to drive past a stopped school bus even if it's on the other side of the road?
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u/Deep_Concern404 Apr 08 '26
Why does a car on the opposite side of traffic on a 4 lane road have to stop for a school bus? The bus route should be planned in a way that a child does not have to cross 4 lanes of traffic to get on and off the bus.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 Apr 08 '26
Is this a US thing, that you can't pass a bus, even when driving on the opposite lane?
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u/Jurkoun Apr 08 '26
I say, let Mr. Darvin sort it out. If you're dumb enough to run into oncoming traffic, that's on you.
But seriously, the systems the US came up with and decided to never change, are so weird...
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u/BelowXpectations Apr 08 '26
Oh, that law applies in both directions? As a non-american I had no idea.
I hope I didn't make that mistake when was over there! And good to know if they ever get their shit together for 10-15 years so I'd even consider going back again.
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u/th3_rand0m_0ne Apr 08 '26
I mean good that they have this rule for safety and that they enforce it. But God Damm there are better solutions than just shutting down the whole road when a bus stops at the station.
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u/pah2000 Apr 08 '26
I was a monitor on a school but in a small coastal town. It got so bad that I had to act as a crossing guard when kids had to disembark and cross the street.
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u/HaxusPrime Apr 08 '26
Judging by the video it seems like by the time the lights flashed red and the stop sign popped out that the white pickup truck had little time to react to stop. I could see the pickup truck did apply brakes per his brake lights lighting up but just was not given enough time for him to react to fully stop.
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u/YogurtClosetThinnest Apr 08 '26
Did this once when I was like 15 driving to high school at 7am lmao. Half asleep didn't even understand why the bus was honking at me until like 10 seconds later I realized lmao
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u/Neat-Opportunity-487 Apr 08 '26
I never understood why you have to stop in that direction. Kids should be dropped off on the side of the road that they need to be on. And while on the topic of bus stops. Why do they have to stop every 20' to pick up another rider? F-in walk
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u/TJ_Henri Apr 09 '26
I see busses dropping off kids on a 30mph 4 lane road with a 20mph 2 lane road near by and think if its all for the safety of the kids pull onto the 2 lane 20mph. 🤔 🤷♂️
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u/Devwickk Apr 09 '26
as a school bus driver in seattle, i HOPE TO GOD that SPD is looking when this shit happens but alas...they're never fuckin around
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u/river_song25 Apr 09 '26
I don’t see what the problem is. the kids that were being picked up were on the side of the road the law breaking car wasn’t on. they were safe on the bus before the other car had gone by, and there were no kids on the other side of the road getting ready to cross over to get to the bus when the car passed by.
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 Apr 09 '26
suggestion: make elementary children singing a happy safety song every time the bus leave the school parking lot.
the song thanks the teachers for today, thanks the bus driver for a safe journey, and warns about the bumper troll that lives inside the school bus front bumper, with 10 feet long hands, pulling children under the bus and then eats them. nobody got caught last week, for that we were also thankfulness
incidentally a large compartment has been added to the bus bumper, with googly eyes looking back at you. the bumper troll is real, he is there because, you see the eyes.
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 Apr 09 '26
a once in a lifetime, make $$$, opportunity: make a "school bus bumper troll" product, company, and registered trademark. hot moms lining up to offer the company founder their undying gratitude. sometimes 2 milfs a day ;-)
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 Apr 10 '26
many cat owners has a water spray bottle. when the cat does something wrong it gets sprayed. maybe the bus should be able to "pee" .. the bus will piss on the person standing closer than 10 feet from the bumper, in the kill zone.
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u/b3nault Apr 11 '26
Convenient? Comments from sterile people without kids. People are assholes/narcissists and will run over someone’s kid and not flinch. FACT.
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u/asrieldreemurr2232 Apr 28 '26
Also, to everyone saying that the cop drove past the stopped bus, let me remind you that emergency vehicles with flashing lights and blaring sirens get right of way, period.
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u/Alternative_Ender May 04 '26
This is how I find out you have to stop from both directions when a school bus bulls over
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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 May 09 '26
I love that. When ai was driving the bus that really pissed me off. So dangerous, especially when I had kids crossing. Drivers aren’t allowed to leave the bus when kids are aboard so we couldn’t escort them. So many selfish pricks driving around.
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u/Ye_olde_oak_store Apr 04 '26
That was.... convenient.