SAN ANTONIO – A school on a major road on the Northeast Side of San Antonio is giving parents cause for concern about safety while dropping off and picking up their children.
As students walk to the IDEA Walzem campus, cars zoom by on Walzem Road, where the speed limit is 45 miles per hour.
“Many fender benders I have observed myself. I have not yet seen children getting injured, but it’s just a matter of time until a kid gets injured here,” said Anne Ottinger, a mother to a second-grader.
Ottinger fears the amount of traffic, the high rate of speed, the lack of lighting, and the lanes, paired with the added congestion of dropping off and picking up children, could result in an accident.
“On top of all the traffic, you’ve seen kids cross three or four lanes just to get to the school?” asked KSAT Reporter John Paul Barajas.
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