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Road Traffic Act — Article 51 (Special protection of school buses for children)

도로교통법 제51조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-07-22. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-07-01) — check the Korean original.

(1) When a school bus for children stops on the road and operates its devices, such as warning lamps, indicating that children or infants are boarding or alighting such school bus, the driver of any motor vehicle driving in the lane on which the school bus has parked and the driver of any other motor vehicle that is driving in the lane just beside the former shall temporarily stop before reaching the school bus and then drive slowly the motor vehicle after checking the safety of such movement. <Amended on Dec. 30, 2014>

(2) In cases falling under paragraph (1), the driver of any motor vehicle driving in the opposite direction on a road along which no median lane is marked or along a two-lane road shall temporarily stop the motor vehicle before reaching the school bus and then drive slowly the motor vehicle after checking the safety of such movement.

(3) Each driver of any motor vehicle shall be prohibited from overtaking any school bus for children traveling along road while indicating that children or infants are onboard the school bus. <Amended on Dec. 30, 2014>[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 8, 2011]

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