{"id":208871,"date":"2012-08-26T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208871"},"modified":"2012-08-27T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T21:24:25","slug":"longview-police-draw-attention-to-school-bus-safety-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208871","title":{"rendered":"Longview Police Draw Attention to School Bus Safety Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=208941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/school-bus-stop-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"school bus stop sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-208941\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 The Longview Police Department reminds 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. The driver of a vehicle shall stop before reaching the school bus when the bus is operating a visual signal and may not proceed until: the school bus resumes motion; the operator is signaled by the bus driver to proceed; or the visual signal is no longer actuated.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a vehicle 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, such as a concrete or grassy median. 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 \u2014 The Longview Police Department reminds 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. The driver of a vehicle shall stop before reaching the school bus when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=208871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Police Draw Attention to 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-208871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 12:08:10","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\/208871","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=208871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209058,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208871\/revisions\/209058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}