From Oct 2008
Drivers would be banned from overtaking school buses while picking up and dropping off pupils under a planned Scottish pilot scheme backed by the transport minister.
Stewart Stevenson has vowed to lobby his Westminster counterparts to allow a trial of the US-style system used for yellow school buses.
The move came after Mr Stevenson met the parents of two pupils who were killed last month in Aberdeenshire when they were hit by cars after stepping off school buses.
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