WHP: motorists must stop while traveling in both directions when school buses stop to unload or load students

Wyoming Highway Patrol Lieutenant Erik Jorngesen is informing motorists of Sheridan County that they must stop in both directions of travel when a school bus begins to flash it’s red lights and deploys the Stop-Arm. 

In Wyoming, the law requires the driver of a vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any stopped school bus, must stop before reaching the school bus when the bus’s flashing red lights and Stop-Arm are in operation. The driver must not proceed until the stopped bus resumes travel and the flashing red lights and Stop-Arm are no longer in operation.

Wyoming Highway Patrol Lieutenant Erik Jorgensen. 

According to the American School Bus Council, passing vehicles cause an estimated two-thirds of school bus loading and unloading fatalities. Nearly two-thirds of school bus-related fatalities of school-age children occur outside of the school bus.