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Anonymous wrote:Just saw an odd situation where a firetruck was trying to pass a stopped schoolbus. The schoolkids weren't staying put so the firetruck could pass. Are schoolkids trained in what to do in that situation? My kids didn't ride the bus so I can't ask them
School buses always have priority - the priority is for the kids to get safely on the bus and not have any vehicles run them over.
+1 I have seen this happen with my own eyes on Battery Lane in Bethesda. The rescue squad ambulance stopped for a school bus with red flashing lights on and stop sign out.
I think for most ambulance patients that's fine. But every now and then you're going to have a life and death situation, and I'd hate for my kid's schoolbus to be the reason the patient didn't make it.
The problem is that it’s not just a stopped vehicle, there are kids getting on and off of it. And those kids probably aren’t going to look before crossing the street. So even if it is a life or death situation, if they try to pass the bus, they risk running over a child and killing them.
Even if you practice drills, you can’t guarantee that kids will follow them in real life. A fire drill has a teacher right thereto guide the kids. A bus driver would have to get up, go outside, wrangle the kids, and by that point the ambulance may have just waiting anyway.
Better outcomes all around if emergency vehicles just yield to school buses. If someone is so far gone that an extra 20 seconds of waiting means they don’t make it, chances are they weren’t going to make it anyway. There are a thousand other variables that could have delayed them those 20 seconds.
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