School buses — West Virginia Permit Test
School buses on the West Virginia permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
On all highways, streets, parking lots, private roads and driveways, traffic in both directions must stop before reaching a school bus with its red lights flashing that is picking up or setting down students.
Children walk around the front of the bus where the driver behind cannot see them at all.
On all highways streets parking lots private roads or driveways traffic in both directions must stop before reaching a school bus that has its red lights flashing which is receiving or discharging students.
Only on interstate highways does traffic coming toward a school bus stopped on the other side of the median not have to stop.
The median is what keeps the children out of your lane; without one there is no exception.
Only on Interstate Highways does traffic coming toward a school bus stopped on the other side of the median not have to stop.
You may not go on until the bus resumes motion, the driver signals you to proceed, or the visual signals are no longer showing.
The lights going out is not the same as the children being clear.
You may not proceed until the bus resumes motion or signaled by the school bus driver to proceed or the visual signals are no longer actuated.
Passing a stopped school bus brings a minimum 60-day license suspension and a minimum fine of $500, or up to six months in jail, for a first offense.
It is one of the heaviest penalties in the handbook, because of who is in the road.
The penalty for passing a stopped school bus is a minimum of 60 days driver's license suspension and a minimum fine of $500 or confinement in jail for not more than six (6) months for the first offense.
If the driver who passed a stopped school bus cannot be identified, the owner or lessee of the vehicle is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, subject to fines.
The car is registered to somebody even when nobody saw who was driving it.
If the identity of the driver of a vehicle that passes a stopped school bus cannot be ascertained, the owner or lessee of the vehicle in violation is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, subject to fines.
On the test
Where must traffic in both directions stop for a school bus with red lights flashing?
On every road, lot and driveway. Children walk around the front of the bus where the driver behind cannot see them at all. West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook, p.50: “On all highways streets parking lots private roads or driveways traffic in both directions must stop before reaching a school bus that has its red lights flashing which is receiving or discharging students.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook, published by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-06.