Now that school is back in session across the state, commuters must be aware of the additional traffic on the road in the form of school buses. State Department of education Director of Safety John Dozier says many drivers are still not clear on a law that changed in the state four years ago pertaining to a stopped school bus. Dozier says on a two lane road or highway traffic directly behind and approaching the bus from the opposite lane must stop so children can be safely loaded or unloaded. Dozier says the rules are different for four lane roads.”if you are on a four lane highway then only the traffic behind the bus is required to stop. We do not have stops on the left side of the road on four-lane highways so that traffic approaching the bus on four-lane highways may continue to move.The traffic behind the bus must stop and wait until the bus pulls off and the red lights are deactivated.” [Read more...]
Horry County neighborhoods get fireworks prohibited zone approval
Horry County Council has a monthly public safety committee meeting, and often a topic of discussion is the distinction of fireworks free zones. Currently, the City of Myrtle Beach is a fireworks-restricted zone, but certain areas of the beach in Horry County are not part of the city. Horry County spokesperson Lisa Bourcier says the county now has more power.
“In prior years the state of South Carolina only gave cities the ability to regulate fireworks, not the counties, and that law changed a couple of years ago, which allows counties to regulate fireworks; however, the actual property owner has to come before the county and ask their property be zoned a fireworks prohibited zone. We can’t blank it prohibited fireworks across the board,” says Bourcier.
In Monday’s meeting, Bourcier said two area neighborhood received approval from the committee to make their neighborhoods prohibited zones.
“As far as complaints we have heard across the board from various properties are just the issue of discharging as far as public safety issues with people around, the safety concerns, and of course, the fire hazards that come with those. So those are the main concerns we usually hear,” says Bourcier. [Read more...]
