School bus caution — Montana Permit Test

If a school bus is slowing to stop for passengers, or is showing a flashing yellow light, you must slow down and proceed carefully.

Yellow lights mean the bus is about to stop, and children may already be in the road waiting for it.

If you approach a bus from either direction that is slowing down in preparation to stop to load passengers, or a bus displaying a yellow flashing light, you must slow down and proceed carefully.

You do not need to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights if it is on a different road.

Children leaving a bus on another road do not cross your road, so stopping only blocks traffic.

You do not need to stop if meeting or passing a school bus that is on a different road (Diagram 3) or is stopped in an adjacent loading zone where pedestrians are not allowed to cross the road.

You do not need to stop for a school bus stopped in an adjacent loading zone where pedestrians are not allowed to cross the road.

When no child may cross the road, a car going by puts no one in its path.

You do not need to stop if meeting or passing a school bus that is on a different road (Diagram 3) or is stopped in an adjacent loading zone where pedestrians are not allowed to cross the road.

When driving past a school, slow down and watch for children day and night, because children use the playground at all hours.

Kids playing after dark dart out just as fast as they do at recess.

When driving past a school, slow down and watch for children DAY and NIGHT.

A school bus ahead is flashing yellow lights. What must you do?

Slow down and proceed carefully. Yellow lights mean the bus is about to stop, and children may already be in the road waiting for it. Montana Driver Manual, p.40: “If you approach a bus from either direction that is slowing down in preparation to stop to load passengers, or a bus displaying a yellow flashing light, you must slow down and proceed carefully.”