Walk It Through: The Morning School Run
The booster seat, the seat belt stop, the stopped bus and the hydrant.
A parent buckles in a kindergartner who has outgrown a forward facing seat.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One school morning. Bus video cameras, crossing guards, school zones and their speeds, and children riding in open truck beds are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Multi-lane highwayFor the school bus rule, a highway or private road with four or more traffic lanes, at least two in each direction, on which a driver going the opposite way need not stop for a stopped bus.
- Great bodily injuryBodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death, or causes serious, permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member or organ.
- Belt-positioning booster seatThe seat a child at least four years of age who has outgrown a forward facing seat rides in, in a rear seat, used with both lap and shoulder belts and never with a lap belt alone.