The title needs to be changed to "some drivers stop in middle of the road for no reason and create a dangerous situation". It happens on Pisgah Church Road every morning.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_20/GS_20-217.html

this is the statute that refers to this subject.
The part you didnt mention was that it must have 4 lanes besides the center turn lane. Unless there is a divider in the center of the road. heres a copy of the law

§ 20‑217. Motor vehicles to stop for properly marked and designated school buses in certain instances; evidence of identity of driver.
(a) When a school bus is displaying its mechanical stop signal or flashing red lights and the bus is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers, the driver of any other vehicle that approaches the school bus from any direction on the same street, highway, or public vehicular area shall bring that other vehicle to a full stop and shall remain stopped. The driver of the other vehicle shall not proceed to move, pass, or attempt to pass the school bus until after the mechanical stop signal has been withdrawn, the flashing red stoplights have been turned off, and the bus has started to move.
(b) For the purpose of this section, a school bus includes a public school bus transporting children or school personnel, a public school bus transporting senior citizens under G.S. 115C‑243, or a privately owned bus transporting children. This section applies only in the event the school bus bears upon the front and rear a plainly visible sign containing the words "school bus."
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the driver of a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction from the school bus, upon any road, highway or city street that has been divided into two roadways, so constructed as to separate vehicular traffic between the two roadways by an intervening space (including a center lane for left turns if the roadway consists of at least four more lanes) or by a physical barrier, need not stop upon meeting and passing any school bus that has stopped in the roadway across the dividing space or physical barrier.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any school bus driver to stop and receive or discharge passengers or for any principal or superintendent of any school, routing a school bus, to authorize the driver of any school bus to stop and receive or discharge passengers upon any roadway described by subsection (c) of this section where passengers would be required to cross the roadway to reach their destination or to board the bus; provided, that passengers may be discharged or received at points where pedestrians and vehicular traffic are controlled by adequate stop‑and‑go traffic signals.
(e) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
(f) Expired.
(g) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section and willfully strikes any person causing serious bodily injury to that person shall be guilty of a Class I felony. (1925, c. 265; 1943, c. 767; 1947, c. 527; 1955, c. 1365; 1959, c. 909; 1965, c. 370; 1969, c. 952; 1971, c. 245, s. 1; 1973, c. 1330, s. 35; 1977, 2nd Sess., c. 1280, s. 4; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1323; 1983, c. 779, s. 1; 1985, c. 700, s. 1; 1991, c. 290, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 382; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1998‑149, s. 10; 2005‑204, s. 1.)

my point is that if its a 2 lane road with a turn lane (3 lanes) you still need to stop for the bus. Its good i looked up the law, based on what you wrote i was planning to pass all stopped buses if i saw a turn lane. it must be a total of 5 lanes or have a center wall or fence, otherwise you need to stop.

Hugh,
You are so right. Another spot is Westridge Road at night---where the Christmas lights have even gone across the road to the "group home"! (I've always wondered if that's where neocon lived)
Anyway, folks slow down to look at the lights and get rear ended EVERY evening! Pisgah Church between Lawndale and Elm is zoo! Trucks, old people, Virginia folks who don't know the area, and the occasional Mario Andretti "wannabe".