Stopping for school buses — Arizona Permit Test

When a school bus is picking up or dropping off passengers, you must come to a complete stop before reaching it, whatever your direction of travel.

Children cross in front of the bus and cannot see cars coming around it. Drivers from both ways have to stop.

complete stop before reaching the bus, regardless of your direction of travel.

A school bus shows alternating flashing lights and an extended stop-sign arm while passengers are getting on or off.

The arm and lights are the signal that children are around the bus, maybe out of your sight.

A school bus will have alternating flashing lights and a mechanical stop-sign arm extended while passengers are entering or leaving the bus.

You are not required to stop for a school bus on a divided roadway when you are traveling in the opposite direction.

A physical barrier keeps children from crossing to your side, so traffic across it can go on with caution.

You are not required to stop for a school bus on a divided roadway when traveling in the opposite direction.

Painted roadway striping by itself does not make a road a divided roadway for school bus stops.

Paint does not stop a child from running across. Only a real barrier, like a fence or curbing, lets the other side go on.

Roadway striping by itself does not constitute a physical separation of the roadway.

Use extreme care near any stopped school bus, because a child may dart out from the front or the rear of the bus.

A child who runs out from behind the bus is hidden until the last second, and has no idea you are there.

as a child may dart from the front or the rear of the bus.

Which drivers must stop for a school bus that is loading or unloading children on an undivided road?

Drivers going either way. Children cross in front of the bus and cannot see cars coming around it. Drivers from both ways have to stop. Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.39: “complete stop before reaching the bus, regardless of your direction of travel.”