Over 350 drivers nabbed speeding in school zones

SASKATOON – Police taught drivers a lesson in school zone safety over a two-day traffic blitz in Saskatchewan last week.

A total of 835 tickets were issued during a two-day traffic blitz focusing on school zone safety, easily doubling the last operation of its kind.

Operation Student Safety took place last Tuesday and Wednesday with a Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) event in Corman Park communities like Martensville and Warman.

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STEP is an SGI-sponsored, multi-department safety enforcement event which was held in conjunction with the traffic blitz.

Combined, these efforts resulted in 352 tickets for speeding in school zones, 179 other speeding tickets, 125 seatbelt violations, 61 cellphone infractions, 30 for failing to stop at signs/red lights, 20 jaywalkers, 8 tickets for failing to yield to pedestrians and 60 other tickets.

According to preliminary 2012 numbers, SGI says there were 11 collision-related injuries in the province’s school zones.

Last September’s Operation Student Safety resulted in 345 tickets, including 293 for speeding in school zones.