[Hank Rearden]

It would more likely be a student, but an "ordinary pedestrian" is seemingly covered as well.

I take your point, but what's next?
Perhaps Striking someone after passing the dump truck would become a felony.???

So school buses are special, but if you whack somebody by negligently passing a beerwagon it's not so bad?

I hope you see the sarcasm here.

[Izzy Dunne]

Well, it's passing the STOP sign that's the problem.
If your beerwagon had a legally binding STOP sign on it, it should be the same thing.

You could argue that a school bus shouldn't have such protection. Is that what you're saying?