Is it even safe to look left, right, left?

Just exactly how safe are your children when you come to pick them up from school?

To combat speeding and reckless driving, a number of schools have erected speed humps and have a scholar patrol but this can only do so much. It’s up to motorists to ensure the safety of other people’s children.

Ms Nettie Krause stopped outside a school in eMalahleni to pick her child up when she saw scholars nearly get knocked over by a car.
“I was parked behind a car where four children were getting their bags out to go to school, the Volkswagen Golf next to it stopped and either their handbrake didn’t work or they just didn’t pull it up, it started rolling back towards the children,” said Krause.

Fortunately the children saw the Golf rolling back and managed to get to safety. The Golf bumped into the car the children were getting their bags from.

“The Golf’s driver got out of the car and got into another car parked further down, switching driver seats with another person, then both just left, without a sorry or a goodbye,” continued Krause.

Krause approached the school who then took the matter further. Now their Adopt-a-cop visits on a daily basis in attempts to ensure the safety of the children coming from and going to school.

WITBANK NEWS asked our Facebook readers to comment on how they as parents feel about motorists driving past schools.
Most replied with ‘They drive to fast’, while others added that motorists have no respect or concern for school children.

“On the mines we have these safety rules and regulations where there needs to be hard physical barriers between pedestrians and vehicles/equipment but, when it comes to our children we as parents don’t fight the same fight as we fight at the workplace. We should demand proper pick-up and drop-off areas for our children,” said Mr Alexander Giles.

Ms Caroline Steyn added that she was almost run over one morning while dropping her child off at school.