Who has the right of way?
By adamg - Thu, 02/14/2008 - 3:35pm.
A school bus letting kids off or an ambulance speeding toward it?
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the school bus, with its red
the school bus, with its red lights flashing, has "right of way", for lack of a better phrase. i'm a cop, and they beat it into your head in the academy that, no matter what, you have to stop and wait for an ambulance.
So which is it?
You say the bus, but then you tell us it was beaten into your head that you have to stop and wait for an ambulance...
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From the brains behind http://www.bigdumptruck.com
Poorly phrased
I think the officer was trying to say that the ambulance has to stop and wait (for the bus) by saying the "stop and wait" is "for the ambulance (to do)". Not that the bus has to stop and wait for the ambulance.
This is found in Ch. 89, Sec. 7b of the Massachusetts General Laws: "The driver of any such approaching emergency vehicle shall comply with the provisions of section fourteen of chapter ninety when approaching a school bus which has stopped to allow passengers to alight or board from the same, and whose red lamps are flashing."
MGL 89-7b: Operation of emergency vehicles