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Show Drivers, protect students EDITORIAL, With many excited students hurrying to and from school this fall, all parents, as well as those drivers of automobiles who may not have children in school, are urged to take every defensive precaution to avoid having or causing an accident with the young school students. It is particularly hazardous in the mornings at the beginning of school when children of the elementary age as well as the older students cross the streets at any undetermined un-determined moment and at no given or designated place. Cooperation must come from both students and parents to avoid serious vehicle accidents. Students should use crosswalks and drivers should use every safety precaution a they drive past designated school areas. Utah law requires ALL traffic to stop for school buses when the flashing red lights on the buses are in operation. This includes both the traffic behind and the traffic approaching the bus, except for oncoming traffic on divided highways. This law obviously is intended to protect the school children hurrying either to get on the bus or to get out and play after a day of classes, and who forget about traffic as they alight on the ground from the bus. Another reminder to all drivers is that speed is limited lim-ited to 20 miles an hour during hours when children are present in school through the marked school zone areas on the streets. The same rule applies to school crossings. Our plea is for Mr. and Mrs. Motorist to use every precaution when driving near or past a school zone, crossing cross-ing or designated school area. Canyon Drive hazardous Particular emphasis should be placed on driving on the Canyon Drive where students have to walk to the high school using the roadway since there is not presently any sidewalk. Canyon traffic both coming and going is hazardous and excessive speeds (the limits is 25 miles) may cause an accident, particularly where students fail to give the driver enough road room. |
