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Wis JI-Civil 1132
Stopped School Bus: Position on Highway
A school bus when loading or unloading passengers must be stopped with its flashing
red warning lights activated and must be stopped on the traveled portion of the highway as
near as practicable to the right-hand edge of the lane farthest to the right which is improved,
designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel excluding the berm or shoulder.
While the law provides that a school bus while loading or unloading with flashing red
warning lights activated must stop on the traveled portion of the highway, nevertheless the
law requires the school bus driver to use ordinary care to determine whether the stop can be
safely made on the paved or traveled portion of the roadway of the highway. The driver is
required to take into account such factors as weather, atmospheric conditions of visibility,
conditions of the surface of the highway, the topography and the course of the highway, the
visibility of the bus to oncoming traffic, and any and all other conditions and circumstances
as would be taken into account by a reasonable school bus driver acting under the same or
similar circumstances.
History
Wis JI-Civil 1132 (2008). ©2008, Regents, Univ. of Wis. Prepared by the Wisconsin Civil Jury Instructions Committee of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference with the University of Wisconsin Law School; posted by the Wisconsin State Law Library with the University's permission.
Provenance
- Source
- wilawlibrary.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
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