A 4-minute lesson from the Idaho course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Idaho law lists specific situations where you must stop. Some mean a brief stop, like a stop sign; others, like a school bus with flashing red lights, mean staying stopped until the danger has passed.
Idaho law requires you to STOP:
At a stop line, or before the near-side crosswalk, or where you can see the cross road
For any flashing red light: it is the same as a stop sign
For any steady red arrow: the same as a stop sign; no turn until green or yellow
For a steady red light, behind the stop line (or before the crosswalk)
Or slow down, to yield to a pedestrian in a marked or unmarked crosswalk
At a railway crossing when a train is coming or signals, gates, or a watchman warn
At a steady red, after stopping and yielding to cross-traffic you may turn right, or turn left onto a one-way street, unless posted otherwise. A green arrow with a red light lets you go only in the arrow's direction.
For an emergency vehicle, pull to the nearest edge or curb on the right side, clear of any intersection, and stay stopped until it passes or an officer signals you to go.
Stop for a school bus showing flashing red lights near its top and/or its left-side stop arm, and stay stopped until all children are clear of the roadway and the bus.
Stopped behind another vehicle, leave enough room to see its rear tires where they touch the ground. That gives space to avoid being pushed into it and to go around if it stalls.
You're on a two-lane road and a school bus coming toward you stops with red lights flashing. You must stop too, and wait until every child is clear of the road and the bus. Only a four-lane road with two lanes each way lets oncoming traffic continue.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
When approaching a stop sign with no stop line or crosswalk, you must stop:
where you can see approaching cross traffic
only if cross-traffic is visible
at the edge of the nearest sidewalk or curb line
exactly 10 feet from the intersection
Answer: where you can see approaching cross traffic
Without a stop line or crosswalk, stop where you can view the intersecting traffic.
