Why do School Buses have to stop at all railroad crossings?

Question

You see it on a sticker on the back of the buses. I was just curious why this is required?

Answer 1

so you wont get you but ranover by a train

Answer 2

You notice cars don't have to? You notice, every year somebody in a car, not a school bus gets killed at a rail crossing? It's because drivers don't like to stop, they think they can outrun the train, or they just plain don't hear or see them with the stereo blasting and the cellphone to the ear. Since a school bus has to stop, there is that moment of reflection that many car drivers don't take. Kids stay alive.

Answer 3

In most, if not all states, the law requires bus drivers to stop, open the driver's window and passenger door, turn off the radio and all internal devices, and look and listen for an approaching train or signals that warn of an approaching train.

Answer 4

I think it's because several years ago a bus load of kids were hit and killed by a train at a malfunctioning RR crossing; The public reaction was enough to require stops at all crossing in many area. (Here the drivers have to open the folding doors to so not to obstruct their line of sight)

Answer 5

It's a safety regulation, all the kids have to be completely silent during the time waiting also. An interesting thing about bus safety, the students do not have seat belts. Why not? The metal band that goes around the seats, hitting your face into that, couldn't feel too good.

Answer 6

1) Because it's the law.
2) The bus driver doesn't want to lose his/her job.
Also many modern trains are quiet and you won't necessarily hear them coming. If the crossing signal malfunctions, the driver stopping may be the only thing that saves the lives of the kids in the bus........

Answer 7

Because of the many accidents that happend prior to the law becoming effective. It gives the driver time to make sure there is no train and that it is safe to cross.

Answer 8

Because that will give the driver time to make damn sure that there is not a train coming.

No matter what you are driving or riding in; the train ALWAYS wins

Answer 9

So they don't become one of those tragic stories with ghost children pushing cars over railroad tracks.

Answer 10

So everyone can get a good look at the train that is going to hit them.

Answer 11

because the bus is so big if the train is near the bus might not make it across in time