You must stop for a school bus:
- That is parked on the shoulder of the road with no one in it.
- When it approaches you, even if its lights are not flashing.
- If you are both driving on a two-lane highway and its red lights are flashing. ✓
- Whenever the driver waves at you.
Answer: C. If you are both driving on a two-lane highway and its red lights are flashing.
You must stop for a school bus when you approach it from either direction on a two-lane highway and its red lights are flashing.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says that if you approach a school bus from either direction and it is showing alternately flashing red lights, you must stop. You stay stopped until the bus moves again, the driver signals you to go, or the red lights stop flashing. The flashing red lights are what trigger the duty to stop, so a bus driving toward you on a two-lane highway with those lights on is a bus you must stop for.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. That is parked on the shoulder of the road with no one in it. — A bus parked on the shoulder with nobody in it and no flashing lights does not meet the handbook's condition for stopping.
- B. When it approaches you, even if its lights are not flashing. — A bus that is simply approaching you with no flashing red lights does not trigger the stop requirement the handbook describes.
- D. Whenever the driver waves at you. — A wave from the driver is not what the handbook lists as the reason to stop, and the handbook only mentions the driver signaling you to proceed.
Remember it
Watch the red lights, not the bus itself: flashing red means stop, and you wait until they quit flashing or the driver waves you on.