{"id":228883,"date":"2025-08-11T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=228883"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:37:45","slug":"stop-for-school-buses-georgia-yes-you-in-the-other-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=228883","title":{"rendered":"Stop For School Buses, Georgia. Yes, You in The Other Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>School is back. That big yellow bus is not a suggestion. Georgia law says when its red lights flash and the stop-arm swings out, most drivers on most roads must stop. Your coffee can wait. A kid\u2019s life cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccd <strong>What\u2019s Happening: <\/strong>Police across Georgia are reminding drivers what the law actually says, because \u201cI didn\u2019t know\u201d won\u2019t impress a judge or a grieving parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On undivided roads (even wide ones), traffic in both directions must stop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A center turn lane is not a divider. If there\u2019s just paint between you and the bus, you stop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n-365x456.jpg 365w, https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n-780x975.jpg 780w, https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/531862534_1173317924824611_4138965433528724384_n-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude8c <strong>What It Means For You: <\/strong>If you see a school bus stop on a two-lane road, you stop. If you\u2019re on a multi\u2011lane road with no divider, you stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there\u2019s a physical divider or an unpaved median between you and the bus, only the cars behind the bus stop. You, on the other side, can roll on\u2014slowly and carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0e <strong>Between the Lines: <\/strong>The law changed, then changed back. Confused? You\u2019re not alone. In 2018, lawmakers briefly let drivers pass a stopped bus if there was a center turn lane due to an error in the crafting of a bill. In 2019, they reversed that. Unfortunately, Georgia residents who otherwise don&#8217;t pay any attention to new laws managed to hold onto the idea that they didn&#8217;t have to stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under current Georgia law, painted lanes don\u2019t let you pass a stopped bus. Concrete, grass, or a real barrier does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Official Code of Georgia Annotated, O.C.G.A. \u00a7 40-6-163 (Meeting or overtaking school bus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Georgia Department of Public Safety, School Bus Safety Guidance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Georgia Governor\u2019s Office of Highway Safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=38]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School is back. That big yellow bus is not a suggestion. Georgia law says when its red lights flash and the stop-arm swings out, most drivers on most roads must stop. Your coffee can wait. A kid\u2019s life cannot. \ud83d\udccd What\u2019s Happening: Police across Georgia are reminding drivers what the law actually says, because \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[15046,18782],"class_list":["post-228883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic","tag-bus","tag-stop","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}