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DO NOT PASS STOP AUGUST 9, 2024
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When you think about it, the Monopoly game instructions, “Do Not Pass Go,” are kind of counterintuitive. Logically, “Do Not Pass Stop” makes a lot more sense, doesn’t it? It’s a clear and automatically understandable direction that anyone should understand in any setting. Or so you would think. The exception seems to be when a school bus is involved. Whenever a bus stops to pick up or drop off passengers, dozens of red and yellow flashing lights are activated, including a brightly illuminated STOP sign that extends out from the side of the bus. It’s all impossible to miss, plus the vehicle itself is the size of, well a bus. How does someone not see all of that?
Talk to local bus drivers (as we did) and they will tell you that cars passing their stopped buses with all warning lights activated is a regular occurence. “Every week there are at least one or two incidents on my bus alone,” said one Columbia County bus driver. “How do they not notice a school bus?” It’s not just a CSRA problem. Poke around a little on places like YouTube and you can find dozens of videos from all over the country featuring school and/ or law enforcement officials discussing the problem and begging drivers to drive safely and obey the laws protecting kids. The beauty of the school bus safety law is its simplicity. Stop means stop. Period. It applies to all traffic in both directions,
even on a wide road like Mike Padgett Highway or Columbia Road. If you stop on the other side of the road, five lanes away from the bus, expect other drivers to honk at you or pass you. They don’t know the law. You do. Stay the course. You’re doing the right thing. (The only exception for not stopping in oncoming lanes is on divided roads with a median or other physical barrier between opposing lanes of traffic.) Drive around a stopped school bus and several things can happen, none of them good. A new Georgia law makes illegally passing a stopped bus a high and aggravated misdemeanor with a minimum fine of $1,000 and up to a year in jail. And it could be even worse than that — much worse. +
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