{"id":164493,"date":"2012-02-14T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=164493"},"modified":"2012-02-15T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:56:53","slug":"longview-police-remind-drivers-about-school-bus-safety-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=164493","title":{"rendered":"Longview Police Remind Drivers About School Bus Safety Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=164494\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-164494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/thumb_police-longview-shield.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_police-longview-shield\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-164494\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; The Longview Police Department wants to remind drivers to use caution when they approach or pass, from either direction, a school bus, especially loading and unloading.  State law prohibits drivers from passing school buses when the bus is operating a visual signal and shall stop before reaching the school bus when the bus is operating a visual signal and may not proceed until:<br \/>\n\u2022\tthe school bus resumes motion;<br \/>\n\u2022\tthe operator is signaled by the bus driver to proceed;  or<br \/>\n\u2022\tthe visual signal is no longer actuated.<\/p>\n<p>An operator is not required to stop if the highway has separate roadways and the bus is on a different roadway.  The law defines a separate roadway as a roadway that has intervening space or where vehicles are not permitted to drive, a physical barrier, or clearly indicated section constructed to impede vehicular flow.   A highway is not considered to have separate roadways if the roadway is only separated by a left turn lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The Longview Police Department wants to remind drivers to use caution when they approach or pass, from either direction, a school bus, especially loading and unloading. State law prohibits drivers from passing school buses when the bus is operating a visual signal and shall stop before reaching the school bus when the bus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=164493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Police Remind Drivers About School Bus Safety Laws<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 02:42:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164493"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164818,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164493\/revisions\/164818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}