Project Safe Start

More than 100 tickets were handed out to drivers in Halton today — as police crackdown on speeding and distracted driving in school zones.

Police were out with radar guns this morning at this school in Milton. It’s one of many they’ll be at in the region this week.

They’re trying to drive home the message of how dangerous speeding, distracted driving, and careless driving are in school zones. They kicked off their annual safety initiative ‘Project Safe Start’ last week.

It’s the eighth year they’ve done it, but Halton’s Police Chief Steve Tanner says drivers still aren’t getting it: “School zones are so important that’s why we have lower speed limits during the time that kids are coming and leaving the school a lot of those things are good improvements but drivers are still leaving late they are in a hurry they are texting and driving and it is too risky to allow it to go on on the roads.”

Police hope their presence in school zones this week will remind drivers to slow down and put their cell phones down.