I'm driving down the road on a pretty major street (45MPH).
There's a median, fairly tall bushes, seperating the direction of traffic
There's a cop beside me that slams on his brakes right when we get to an intersection.
I'm already going throught the intersection, and look around to see if a car ran a red light or something. I notice a bus with its stop sign out across the median, but think
"You don't have to stop if they're across a median", plus I was already in the middle of the intersection, too late to stop.
A block down the road, the cop pulls me over.
He walks up to my car, doesn't even ask for my license,
just pretty much yells "Do you know it's wreckless driving to not stop for an unloading bus!!?!?"
Me: ummm ...
Him: Did you see that bus?
Me: I saw it when I was half way out in the intersection. I didn't see it before
because it was three lanes over on the other side of the bushes. I thought
you didn't have to stop for school buses across medians
Him: There was a break in the median in front of the bus so you were supposed to stop.
It doesn't matter if the bus was 10 lanes over, if there's no median, you stop, understand?
Me: (thinking, "umm .. there was a median") Yes sir, OK
Him: Have a nice day (walks back to car)
Was this cop right or strectching the law a bit? I thought a median road
was a median road, unless the median completely dissapears.
Here's DMV rules on stopping for buses (scroll up a bit) , but it doesn't address this situation specifically.
Also, as always, here's a diagram of the scene
There's a median, fairly tall bushes, seperating the direction of traffic
There's a cop beside me that slams on his brakes right when we get to an intersection.
I'm already going throught the intersection, and look around to see if a car ran a red light or something. I notice a bus with its stop sign out across the median, but think
"You don't have to stop if they're across a median", plus I was already in the middle of the intersection, too late to stop.
A block down the road, the cop pulls me over.
He walks up to my car, doesn't even ask for my license,
just pretty much yells "Do you know it's wreckless driving to not stop for an unloading bus!!?!?"
Me: ummm ...
Him: Did you see that bus?
Me: I saw it when I was half way out in the intersection. I didn't see it before
because it was three lanes over on the other side of the bushes. I thought
you didn't have to stop for school buses across medians
Him: There was a break in the median in front of the bus so you were supposed to stop.
It doesn't matter if the bus was 10 lanes over, if there's no median, you stop, understand?
Me: (thinking, "umm .. there was a median") Yes sir, OK
Him: Have a nice day (walks back to car)
Was this cop right or strectching the law a bit? I thought a median road
was a median road, unless the median completely dissapears.
Here's DMV rules on stopping for buses (scroll up a bit) , but it doesn't address this situation specifically.
Also, as always, here's a diagram of the scene
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