School Safety Plan Part 2: Minimizing Vehicle/Student Interaction

This is an installment of an 8 part series on School Safety Plans.  The next portion will be posted next Monday.

Minimizing the amount of time students mix with vehicles is the low hanging fruit of the traffic safety plan. These measures typically don’t cost anything, but they are usually specific to each school. You are trying to control where students come into the school and leave the school so they don’t mix with a lot of vehicles. An example would be having parents drop off their kids at a school entrance instead of letting them out on the street. Another example is loading students into buses or vehicles in a tightly controlled manner: (1) no vehicles are allowed to move in the loading area while students are being loaded, (2) an adult is in charge who signals the vehicles or buses when all of the students are loaded, (3) the vehicles leave in a single file line and (4) the next platoon of vehicles or buses are loaded. 

 

Comments

[Traffic School]

Hi,

We teach to the children about the traffic rules from their childhood. It can helps to them at the time of road crossings, traffic signals.

- Kate.

[Alvin Sarmiento]

At the school I volunteer with, the students are picked up at the front of the class to prevent the children from crossing the busy streets on their own. They also avoid the chance of accidents. The school is doing a great job implementing different safety projects for it's children.