School bus across a divided highway: painted lines don't count
A free practice question for the Florida permit test, with the answer explained.
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A school bus stops with its stop arm out across a four-lane road divided only by painted lines. Must you stop?
The rule
Oncoming drivers may keep going past a stopped school bus only when a raised barrier, or an unpaved median 5 feet wide or more, separates the two directions. Painted lines or pavement markings are not a barrier, so you must stop.
Painted lines don't count as a barrier. Unless a raised barrier, or an unpaved median 5 feet wide or more, divides the road, traffic both ways must stop.
From the Official Florida Driver License Handbook, page 89. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
Often mixed up with
People confuse these rules with this one. Each has its own practice question.
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