Police, students 'ticket' offenders at Stouffville school

York officers plan to return to area this week

Yorkregion.com
Nov. 16, 2015
By Sandra Bolan

Roughly 60 vehicles were stopped by York Regional Police within about a one-hour timeframe they spent outside Oscar Peterson Secondary School this morning.

York Regional Police were out enforcing the rules of the road and educating motorists on safe driving within school zones. It was part of a road safety event at the school in southwest Stouffville.

More than 50 students from the Hoover Park Drive school’s Grade 5 class were on hand, some holding signs asking motorists to slow down.

No tickets were hand out to motorists who were stopped for speeding, stop sign violations, document checks “and to give the students an opportunity to deliver the message of safe driving to motorists,” according to Const. Andy Pattenden.

Motorists, however, received mock tickets with artwork created by the students to help deliver the message of road safety around their school, he said.

Officers were targeting five preventable offences that contribute to death and serious injury on the roadways: seatbelt infractions, stop sign infractions, speeding, distracted and aggressive driving.

Throughout the rest of the week, officers will try to spend as much time as possible in the area to conduct enforcement and issue tickets to violators, according to Const. Pattenden.