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Published Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | 8:56 a.m.
Updated Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | 11:52 a.m.
Two children were hit by a car today after a parent stopped to drop them off for school in a no-parking zone and they tried to cross the street outside of a marked crosswalk, Metro Police officials said.
As the children attempted to cross Harmon Avenue, near Sandhill Road, at about 7:45 a.m., another car had to stop abruptly, police said. A trailing vehicle failed to notice the stopped car and hit it from behind, causing it to hit the children, police said.
They were transported to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with minor injuries. No one else was injured.
While it was a minor incident, Metro Police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said, it highlights the need for parents to follow traffic rules in school zones. She urged parents to park only in designated areas and ensure their children only cross streets in crosswalks.
“The most egregious offenders of traffic safety are parents dropping off children to school,” Meltzer said.
The driver of the car that hit the stopped vehicle received a ticket for following too closely, police said.
Metro doesnt enforce parents parking and dropping off kids at most schools.. NO Parking means No Parking.
NO HITTING KIDS IN A SCHOOL ZONE MEANS NO HITTING KIDS IN A SCHOOL ZONE!
I don't care if the kids were j-walking - the author of this article should be ashamed of him/herself for failing to give more details and making it out to be entirely the children/parents fault.
If you are driving in a school zone SLOW DOWN! BE CAUTIOUS! Kids do stupid things - they are kids! As an adult, and a licensed drive you should know that!
When conditions are bad - you don't blame it on nature that your car slid while you were driving 80mph and wanted to stop for traffic ahead.
SLOW DOWN! NO EXCUSE!
If you are driving in a school zone you, as the adult and licensed driver, have an obligation to ensure you are VIGILANT AND CAUTIOUS!
This article gives the impression that running over kids is ok as long as they were j-walking in a school zone or their parents somehow made a mistake.
Shameful!
They may have been in a no parking zone but if they were in a school zone - the DRIVER is at fault!
SCHOOL ZONES! are there for ONE reason - to warn you that children are present. Why? Because children do stupid things and walk without looking!
Doesn't mean you can run down children b/c they.....well are behaving like children! No parking zone can be there for various reasons. Doesn't make running children over an ok thing.
I see two at fault here.
The parent that dropped them off and the car that did not get stopped and hit the other car.
I don't see the reporter laying the blame on anyone or saying it is ok to run over kids, they are just reporting the FACTS.
People do need to slow down in this valley, both in and out of the school zones. Everyone including those on foot need to start using common sense and follow the rules/laws.
Ban cars on city streets. There is no reason for a sane person to drive a car. That is what busses are for, right unlv702? Cars are just instruments of murder. Like guns...
Was only a matter of time at this location. Kids constant jaywalking all over. Parents making U turns in the middle of the Harmon street. Parents stopping in the road to pick up kids. There is no order whatsoever at drop off or pickup. All with a Police Substation 300 yards away. With that said, I hope the kids are OK and the parent learned a lesson. Though I doubt it
The reporter is right. The parents were STUPID for dropping their kids off in the WRONG place.
Schools have drop off zones. This parent was TOO LAZY TO DO IT RIGHT.
i do what i want in my car. you get out of my way. Walmart, me, me, me, wheres mine.
I've seen parents block the crosswalk to let thier kids out! They drive like maniacs after they let thier kid out they don't even care about the other kids. I watch for both children and the parents when I drive past a school zone.
The other egregious offenders of traffic safety are people getting on or off a bus. They ignore the traffic light and cross walk just a few yards away to jaywalk across the street.
Also I recently saw a father running as he carried his two young children under his arm crossing against a red light. A car almost hit the father as he jumped aside, stumbled and fell tumbling his two children into the curb.
TruthDetector cannot avoid the deflection and false equivalencies galore that are part and parcel with the teabaggers.
Enlighten us TD. Can you drive an open wheel Indy car on the streets? How about an F1 ride? How about a NASCAR ride? How about a ride from '67 with no smog? Can you drive 100mph in a 25 zone? Can you drive legally without a license? Can you buy a car privately without recording the transferring of title?
Oh wait, I think all of those answers would be a big fat NO? Does it mean that it will completely stop everyone intent on breaking the law? Of course not. Let's just use your silly 3rd grade argument and ban every single law on the book since it won't effectively stop 100% of the crime.
I think the saddest part is that you are probably an adult. Acting like a little child. Making silly false analogies that only a small mind would fall in love with. How was the Glenn Beck show this morning?
Parents should be charged with child endangerment. Stupid parents, I wonder what other dumb lazy things they do to their kids, probably leave them in the car while shopping at walmart no doubt.
Parents' fault. Hands down. I see this type of behavior from the parents Mon-Fri and I'm surprised more kids (and cars) don't get hit. Exactly why I will never live across the street from a school ever again.
On a related note, one day my daughter's bike was the only bike in the bike racks out of 750 students (dry weather but cold). And we didn't pass any students walking from their homes.
Ths happens every day at Faith Luthran middle school. Parents drop and pick up their kids and park in no parking designated zones and soon as the parent picks up thier child they pull out in front of cars driving by. Also they park so close to the intersection you have to pull into it to see down the road.
The old troll who oversees this thinks he can only do favors to the FL parents and not the people who have to put up with this.
I can't wait for school to be out to get our roads back from these terrible parents and the private school!
This congestion and buffoonery during drop off and pickup has been going on since the early 90's
Be safe and get used to it.
And this is why I have a Dash cam on my car just to prove I'm not at fault if I were accused!
Every day when school is open, children of all ages cross the street UNsafely, often with the prompting of adults across the street who are too lazy to cross and escort that child or children in their care. Las Vegas is full of such behavior and thinking. I have NO good words for the kinds of people who are so careless and arrogant.
It seems that most folks refuse to change until something terrible happens to them personally, then suddenly they wake up. And you wonder WHY Nevada is at the bottom in education....it STARTS with the PARENTS!
A PARENT is a child's first and lifelong teacher.
There you have it.
Blessings and Peace,
Star
Sure, let's blame the driver and not the ignorant parent who, obviously, was in more of hurry to get somewhere else than to protect her/his children. What lesson was the parent sending to the children? "You're special, so you don't have to obey the rules?" We see that attitude all the time: parents dragging their little rug-rats across a busy street - against traffic and outside of a crosswalk - and we wonder why these sort of incidents occur? Puleeeze! Shame on the negligent parent in this case!
If you're in a no-parking or no-stopping zone why would you anticipate that the car right in front of you is going to stop? TICKET THE PARENTS.
I drop my daughter off at this school every morning. One day I was turning right out of the school parking lot (which is no where near a crosswalk). I looked left and right to ensure there were no children on the sidewalk. I looked across the street to make sure no children were jay walking. What I didn't look for was the parent who had decided that there was too much traffic to turn left into the parking lot, so they let their child off while sitting in the left hand turn lane. The child then ran behind their parents car and across the street right in front of my already turning vehicle. The child was running very fast because they were trying to avoid the traffic.
Fortunately, I was able to slam on my brakes and avoid hitting the child. I expect a lot of bad behavior from the parents and children during drop off so I am hyper vigilant. But I never expected a parent to let their child off in the middle Harmon right in the middle of the drop off rush. I don't understand why a parent can't take the extra couple of minutes to either drop their kid off at a cross walk or pull into a parking lot.
@Laura, these are people who just go thru the motions of 'parenting' due to their laziness or just not shiving a git attitude. And people still want to argue about WHY kids do so poorly in school? What do you expect with so-called 'parents' who are too lazy to park their car and walk with their kid to ensure their safety? I don't imagine they (the so-called 'parents) would care enough to be bothered making sure their kid is studying and doing homework, getting a good nights rest and a good meal before coming to school each morning.
On any given school day there are approximately a dozen vehicles parked in the no parking area, some directly underneath the signs, along the south side of Las Palmas Entrada Avenue between S. Gibson Rd. and W. Horizon Ridge Pkwy. in Henderson.
When the kids disembark from the schoolbus it's a free-for-all: kids running/walking in and across the street (most without regard for any traffic), parents pulling out into traffic (some without regard for any traffic--some even make illegal U-turns and directional changes IN AND THROUGH the crowds of kids!)
I travel this route several times a week and dread the inevitable.
I wonder why HPD doesn't do something about this situation, before it is too late for some kid(s).
@JahReb: Forks are the tools of obese gluttons.
Guns are the tools of murderers. As are Maseratis and Range Rovers. Nobody needs a Maserati. Or a Range Rover. Except pimps.
And we wonder why even high school students jay walk in front of vehicles, sometimes getting hit. And then THEY and the parents blame the driver?????
We travel that area a few times a week. It is true that speed limits are an issue, BUT the major issue is the parents dropping off or picking up the kids. They park in NO PARKING zones, make illegal U-turns, and let the kids cross anywhere they wish in the middle of the block. A solution: 1. Make the entire stretch "NO STOPPING, NO PARKING AT ANY TIME". 2. Cite EVERY single violator with a hefty fine. 3. Let the kids walk, the exercise would be good for them.