Comments on: Don’t Want A $456 Ticket? Slow Down In School Zones

By: sunshinegrl

sunshinegrl — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:13:22 +0000

Nothing can take the place of a child Everyone needs to slow down whenever children are present. Switch lanes if you see someone speeding that should slow them down then claim stupid like the rest of these drivers do.

By: David Taylor

David Taylor — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:03:31 +0000

All such fines should be required to be put into a fund to pay for necessary speed control mini-bumps / rumble-strips.

By: Wally

Wally — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:13:22 +0000

Not many people paying any attention to any speed signs in school zones, I watch trucks and cars go past Jim Allen every morning at 30 to 35. It seems people just do not care. For the horn blower let them be what they are, an idiot who blows his own horn.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:24:28 +0000

I’ve lost count of the amount of times I have done 20 mph when the light was flashing and been past. And more than 3 times I have stopped for a school bus (with children unloading) and had idiots go flying past me AND the bus. Nothing is worth being in a hurry for when children are near a school bus.

By: Mike J.

Mike J. — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:10:16 +0000

The Beulah Elementary zone on Mobile Hwy certainly gets lots of speeders. The new flashing number radar device seems to be helping. I have people on my bumper all the time and a few years ago the worst was then some jerk actually passed me on this 2-way highway during a school zone time.

By: William

William — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:14:27 +0000

>>>Is Bratt and Northview not included, or do the kids not mean as much so we don’t mention them?

Read the first line of the story again: “Zoom through the Ernest Ward Middle or Molino Park Elementary, or any other school zone..”

When the story was written, two were chosen as EXAMPLES…Molino Park and EWMS because they are North Escambia schools located on a busy state highway. It certainly still applies to the other 60 or so schools in the county, but that would have been an awful run-on sentence.

By: Questioning

Questioning — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:10:21 +0000

Is Bratt and Northview not included, or do the kids not mean as much so we don’t mention them?

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:06:44 +0000

Puddin, I think you might mean “implore” as the police already are “empowered.
Unfortunately many are too busy with all of the equipment in their patrol vehicle to notice all of the traffic violations going on around them.

As of Oct. 2013, texting while driving anywhere in Florida is a secondary offense. Meaning you have to be getting a ticket for something else first.

By: CD

CD — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:45:44 +0000

This law must not apply to Tate High School Zone on Hwy 29.

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:42:24 +0000

The fine for not stopping for a School Bus Loading or un-Loading children, should be 4 times that $271 dollar amount.