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How SAPD is Combating Reckless Morning Drivers

By Matt Trammell matttrammell, Aug 25, 2020
 

SAN ANGELO, TX – The San Angelo Police Department issued a notice on Tuesday informing citizens on how to stay safe during their morning commute. 

As previously reported, on August 24, San Angelo Police Department Officers issued thirty-five (35) citations and seven (7) warnings in eleven school zones throughout San Angelo:

  • Cell phone in School Zone: 2
  • Other/Misc. Violations: 5 
  • No Insurance: 2
  • Speeding: 26
  • Warnings: 7

They also issued a number of tickets for drivers on the Loop 306. For more see: SAPD: Over 90 Citations Issued Monday Morning

Tips for Driving in School Zones:

  • Please leave early to allow for a safe morning commute.
  • Remain alert at all times.
  • Put away your cellphone. Cellphone use is banned in active school zones and violators face fines of up to $200 in school zones where signs are posted.
  • As always, stay away from alcohol and/or drugs, including prescribed and over-the-counter medication which may impair driving. They impact your ability to remain alert and affect your decision-making, reflexes, and reaction time.
  • Drop off and pick up your children in your school’s designated areas, not the middle of the street.
  • Keep an eye on children gathered at bus stops.
  • Be alert for children who might dart across the street or between vehicles on their way to school.
  • Obey all traffic rules, signs and signals.
  • As always, stay away from alcohol and/or drugs, including prescribed and over-the-counter medication which may impair driving. They impact your ability to remain alert and affect your decision-making, reflexes and reaction time.

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Wabo73, Tue, 08/25/2020 - 11:44

That should be automatic get phone smashed right then. On phone while driving is bad enough Drive that’s it get off your phone no one can do both good enough

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I think the guy in the article's featured stock photo, representing a hypothetical irate driver, is really just misunderstood. Morning driving is hard on everyone, and it doesn't help that suggestion signs placed periodically along the roadside provide a constant distraction to an otherwise straightforward task of getting from "point A," to "point B."

People can be real sticklers about road etiquette these days and become especially upset when one's course doesn't take one along "the beaten path," "coloring inside the lines," of what they consider to be a conventional path to a destination. Here a curb is jumped, there a parking lot dashed across on four wheels. From time to time, yes, signage is lost from the roadside - when one confines oneself merely to the road.

I think it's time we eased up on our morning drivers. At that, it's high time we all accepted that, in life, anywhere can be a backroad.

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