Kids Target Speedy Drivers In School Zone
Posted June 22, 2006 12:00 pm.
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Students from Essex Public School teamed up with police officers from 14 Division to give motorists with a lead foot a choice: pay a speeding ticket from $40 and up or get a sobering lecture on the dangers of speeding form a kid.
The kids and officers targeted speeders along Christie Street, between Dupont and Essex between 9am and 11am. One motorist was pulled over after police clocked him at 51km/h in the 40km zone.
“I’d feel bad if I hit somebody, which has never happened,” he said.
But pedestrian fatalities are on the rise this year – 33 people have been killed in traffic-related accidents so far.
“There are little kids that cross the street, that cross the road every day, and if someone were to be speeding and hit the kid, there’s more higher rate of him or her being killed,” one student explained.
The police/pupil effort doesn’t only help maintain safe speeds around the school, it also help kids out with their math skills. The officer takes the radar reading and the students compare it to their own mathematical measurements.
So far, this program only operates in 14 Division but police are hoping it will soon expand to other areas.
