Note from Audra: Please slow down around our schools. I live 6 houses from an elementary school so I personally know that people get in a huge hurry every day trying to beat the tardy bell and then make it to work on time. Get up earlier or just be tardy..... but don't speed through our school zones. Please.
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My son Declan, age 7, a first grader at Chesnut Charter Elementary walks about two blocks to school every day with a fourth grade neighbor. Thursday morning about 7:15 am (15 min before sunrise) it was a foggy morning with a slight drizzle so Declan was wearing his bright Red rain coat. The kids walked down North Peachtree Rd to Chesnut. Crossing guard Ms. Lorraine Knox assembled a few children at the crosswalk in front of the school, stopped North Bound traffic with her Double Sided Lit Stop Sign and there was no South Bound traffic to stop.
Kids crossed under the supervision of Ms. Knox who was standing in the middle of the road with her lit stop sign and Declan was the last child to go across. At this point a vehicle coming Southbound was heading towards the Chesnut crosswalk without acknowledging Ms. Knox's stop sign nor having any intention to stop and she then she took it upon herself to push my son Declan out of the way of the large pickup truck. Declan's rolling backpack was hit and dragged 10 feet down the road.
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