Friday morning in Bexar County, a mother was seriously injured when a speeding vehicle that tried to pass a school bus on the right struck her. The mother was fortunately able to push her child out of the way of the speeding vehicle, though her heroic action to save her child resulted in a broken arm and head injuries to herself. The Bexar school bus was stopped with its warning flashers on while it loaded school children. Our Texas accident attorneys point out that Texas law prohibits drivers from trying to pass each other on the right in order to prevent these very types of accidents.
Texas law also required drivers to stop and wait when they approach a stopped school bus with its visual warning signals in operation. The law tries to prevent school children from being injured or killed by drivers like the one in Bexar County.
Our Texas accident attorneys here include the excerpt from the Texas Transportation Code that prohibits passing on the right in most circumstances:
§ 545.057. PASSING TO THE RIGHT
(a) An operator may pass to the right of another vehicle only if conditions permit safely passing to the right and:
(A) On a highway having unobstructed pavement not occupied by parked vehicles and sufficient width for two or more lines of moving vehicles in each direction; or
(B) On a one-way street or on a roadway having traffic restricted to one direction of movement and the roadway is free from obstructions and wide enough for two or more lines of moving vehicles.
(b) An operator may not pass to the right by leaving the main traveled portion of a roadway except as provided by Section 545.058.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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