So I know you're wondering- did I hear a crash and a scream the moment after I took this photo? Well?Nope. The driver of the truck was not distracted just then, stopped in time, the vehicles behind the truck were oddly enough paying attention and didn't slam in to each other, and the girl made it back across the school loading loop just fine. Nobody got hurt. Nobody got upset. Nobody will really do anything to get ready for the next time this happens and the truck driver is distracted and whacks the girl after her mom who is parked on the grass median tells her to go back for something that she forgot but to hurry up because it's getting late and there is lots and lots and lots of traffic in this little school parking and loading area all wanting to get out right away. FEWSCH! Yup, just another day of student pickup at a Michigan elementary school.
This school may want to and try to do something to mitigate this danger, but it will be very difficult. You see, the traffic danger problems at this school are magnified a bit because every single one of the students needs to be picked up by a personal internal combustion vehicle. Nope- no school buses in this district. That means hundreds of cars in an area designed for a couple dozen. So, will the money saved on buses be used to build infrastructure for processing hundreds of cars 'n kids in 10 minutes? HA.
Helping schools like this is what I used to do all of the time. You'll find more photos like these on one of the photo pages on my web site at http://web.me.com/doaktc/Site.
I'll have another lovely photo and story from the roadway here in a few days.
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