I thought you said none were killed. You are an idiot. Cell phone and texting will also probably be outlawed. Some of the statistics that you quote probably were taken before people were texting and some of the statistics were before major cell phone use because they gave yearly averages.

You forgot to mention the 150 injured per year along with the ones that are killed. I guess it does not matter to idiots. I can run over your legs so you can see how it feels.

The questions as to why cops are not placed all over where needed. Who is going to pay for that? If it was that cheap to do then it would have been done. One policeman can cover a fairly large town if cameras are added to help patrol the area.

Accidents should try to be cut down and that is done with speed limits and stiff drunk driving laws. I do not care if an accident happens if everything was done to try to reduce those numbers but as you say we should not have any limits at all for school zones. You do not follow the limits anyway so why have any. Just hang the person that either hits a kid or comes close to hitting them.

Do you eat right or exercise or walk carefully on ice or not jump off a 2 story building to help prevent getting your health hurt or bodily injury or do you say it just does not matter and do whatever things that are declared as bad for you?

Even that is not stating that it was in the school zone. So i can argue it’s the not the school zones that are dangerous for kids. Clearly showing that there is no need for the cameras.

Accidents are caused by negligent drivers, who are probably talking on the phone or texting BTW.

Surely you can give me a better website with statistics than that one.

I don’t know how many times i have to tell you that I don’t condone exceeding the speed limit on back roads by more than 10mph. Doing 20 over in a school is horrible, but if you want to stop it put a police officer there.

Not to mention I’ve seen school zones as low as 15mph and as high as 35 or even 40 mph! So my question is if it is soooo damn dangerous in a school zone why is there 35 mph school zones? whay are they not all 15 mph.

But they largest beef is not that they are putting them in the school zones it’s that fact that you can put them anywhere within 1/2 mile radius from the school which in MY area is 99% of the roads. That would probably be 100% of Baltimore city.

I just disagree with cameras enforcing laws rather than people. I disagree with cameras being put in areas up to .5 mile from the school. They should be in the school zone not away from them. I also disagree with speed camera in work zones during off hours when there is no workers there.

These are the things i disagree with.

And to answer your question. If i hit and killed your kid in the school zone. I would be in jail. You would have a lawsuit on me. And then you would be one of those whiny parents that go to the legislature and make the law changed so that the speed limit is 5 mph in a school zone. And of course they would pass it because it’s a feel good law and after all we all want to protect the children. But just because we’re trying to protect the children doesn’t mean it’s a good law.

People act like accidents shouldn’t happen but that’s just life you cant prevent or a avoid everything and anything. No matter how much enforcement or regulation there will always be freak accidents and accidents.

I would guess there are already signs posted that change the speed in certain areas. Is that a fact or not and if there are do you or any of your friends fly by 20 mph above that speed? If you do then that is why you get to have cameras.

But there is so many schools in my area you could put a camera on 99% of the streets here.

You could even put them on the highway if the school was .5 miles away. Where there are no pedestrians.

Also they are allowed in work zones whether there are workers there or not. people are always doing 60 70 mph on the highway. We are just gonna give tickets to everyone? Who is checking these radar guns to make sure they are accurate every time a car passes?

Not to mention you can’t even face your accuser in court and the ticket goes to the owner of the vehicle rather than the offender.

We can still stop it on a local level but its just gonna create confusion and anger towards the government. as you go from one jurisdiction to the next it will be different.

i’d like to say more, but i gotta go now to see AC/DC in NY peace

If in fact people are getting tickets after 10 pm at night and they put up enough fuss during city counsel meetings something would happen. You guys are too ignorant to think that way though and would rather sit back and complain between yourselves.