NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 11, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
BACK TO SCHOOL TRAFFIC SAFETY REMINDERS
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* Give yourself extra time
for your commute.
* Keep an eye out for
children walking or riding their bikes to and from school, and youngsters
getting on and off school busses.
* Pay attention to school
zones by slowing down! Keep in mind if you’re going ten to fourteen miles over
the speed limit in an active school zone, you’ll pay a $273.00 ticket! The
ticket for failing to stop for a stopped school bus is $173.00.
* And remember, if you’re
on a divided highway with an unpaved space of at least five feet, a raised
median, or a physical barrier, you don’t have to stop if you’re traveling in the
OPPOSITE direction of a school bus which has stopped.