Louisiana permit test: school buses & emergency vehicles
Stopping for school buses, yielding to emergency vehicles and move-over laws. 6 questions.
A school bus ahead has stopped with red lights flashing to load children. How far from it must you stop in Louisiana?
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Sample school buses & emergency vehicles questions
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A school bus ahead has stopped with red lights flashing to load children. How far from it must you stop in Louisiana?
- A At least thirty feet
- B At least ten feet
- C At least fifteen feet
- D At least fifty feet
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A. At least thirty feet
You must stop at least 30 feet from a stopped school bus that is loading or unloading children, whether you are behind it or meeting it. Wait until the bus moves and scan before driving on.
Louisiana school bus drivers turn on the flashing YELLOW lights at what distance before a bus stop?
- A Exactly 30 feet
- B Between 100 and 500 feet
- C Between 50 and 100 feet
- D Between 500 and 1,000 feet
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B. Between 100 and 500 feet
Bus drivers turn on the flashing yellow lights at least 100 feet but no more than 500 feet before the stop. Yellow means get ready to stop; red lights and the stop arm come on when the bus halts.
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A school bus is stopped with red lights flashing on the other side of a highway divided by a grassy median. What must you do?
- A Slow to 10 mph and continue
- B Stop until the bus turns off its lights
- C Stop at least 30 feet from the bus
- D You are not required to stop
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D. You are not required to stop
When a school bus is stopped in the opposite lanes of a road separated by a ditch, grassy median, concrete barrier or similar obstacle, you are not required to stop. Still watch for children near the road.
A school bus is stopped with red lights flashing on a road with one lane each way and a center two-way left-turn lane. You are coming from the opposite direction. What must you do?
- A Move into the center lane and pass slowly
- B Stop, because this road is not a divided highway
- C Continue if no children are visible
- D Continue, because the turn lane divides the road
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B. Stop, because this road is not a divided highway
A road with one lane in each direction and a two-way left-turn lane is not a divided highway, so drivers in both directions must stop for the bus. Only a physical separation, or a four- or five-lane road with a center turn lane, changes this.