Questions / Everyday road skills
Answer first · reviewed August 2026
What should I do when an Ontario school bus stops?
The required action depends on the road configuration and the bus’s red lights and stop arm. Study the official handbook diagrams because divided and undivided roads differ.
Make it practical
What to do
Recognize the bus early, slow smoothly and leave generous space.
Easy to miss
The common trap
Copying what another driver does; they may be confidently wrong.
Turn knowledge into a habit
How to practise it
Name the hazard you are managing during practice, then repeat the decision in a different location. Good judgment should survive a new street name.
When a rule, road sign or examiner instruction conflicts with an internet tip, use the official rule and the safe decision. The internet has many talents; wearing a reflective examiner vest is not one of them.
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