CHAMBERSBURG– Recently, the Chambersburg Police Department participated in the” 2023 Operation Safe Stop” in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Operation Safe Stop is a proactive approach to educate the motoring public that passing a stopped school bus, when children are loading or unloading, is both dangerous and illegal.
Law enforcement agencies, school transportation providers, pupil transportation associations, and PennDOT have combined their efforts to raise public awareness about the potential consequences of these traffic violations and reduce the occurrence of illegal school bus passes.
The goal is to keep children safe.
The following is the Pennsylvania law regarding a school bus stop. 3345.
Meeting or overtaking school bus. (a) Duty of approaching driver when red signals are flashing.–Except as provided in subsection (g), the driver of a vehicle meeting or overtaking any school bus stopped on a highway or trafficway shall stop at least ten feet before reaching the school bus when the red signal lights on the school bus are flashing and the side stop signal arms are activated under section 4552(b.1) (relating to general requirements for school buses).
The driver shall not proceed until the flashing red signal lights are no longer actuated. In no event shall a driver of a vehicle resume motion of the vehicle until the school children who may have alighted from the school bus have reached a place of safety. The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection at which a school bus is stopped shall stop his vehicle at that intersection until the flashing red signal lights are no longer actuated.
Sourced via CRIMEWATCH®: https://franklin.crimewatchpa.com/chambersburgpd/21193/post/2023-operation-safe-stop
