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5vz-fe · 06-23-2006, 04:18 PM

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_1427.aspx

Kids Target Speedy Drivers In School Zone
Thursday June 22, 2006
They may not be old enough to get behind the wheel but on Thursday they proved that they have the power to change dangerous driving habits.

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.

Really feel sorry for the guy who is doing 51km/h. They make it sounded like you are actually killing someone. The fact is most kids crossing the road without even trying to look for any cars at all, they just step in. Modern cars can stop from 50 in a blink. Police cars are the craziest out there using their sirens for nothing sometimes.