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A crossing guard (North American English), [1] lollipop man/lady (British, Irish, and Australian English), [2] [3] or school road patrol (New Zealand English) [4] is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians.
Police officers, school crossing guards, and even school bus drivers themselves may have the power to wave traffic on, even when a red light is flashing. On divided highways, most American and Canadian jurisdictions do not require vehicular drivers to stop when on the opposite side of the road from a stopped school bus.
Junior safety patrol is a voluntary group of crossing guards involving older students helping younger students cross streets in elementary and middle schools across the United States and Canada. Both the Chicago Motor Club and the St. Paul Police started programs in 1920.
Safety and smiles. According to the MEL Safety Institute, school crossing guards have "one of the most dangerous occupations in local government."The accident rate has increased by 65% over the ...
The school year started with a mix of crossing guards and police officers manning posts at the district's two high schools, four middle schools, one intermediate school, 10 elementary schools and ...
A road may have a high-visibility jacket wearing traffic controller, a Crossing Guard (colloquially a "lollipop man" or "lollipop woman") who aids children in crossing on their journey to school or a Stop / Go Marshall, (Traffic Guard) at temporary road works. England and Wales. Responsibility is with the Department for Transport.
In San Francisco, one of the nation’s largest testing grounds for driverless vehicles, some school crossing guards say they have had to rush out of crosswalks to avoid being hit by self-driving ...
In the United States, crossing laws vary from state to state and sometimes at the local level. All states require vehicles to yield to a pedestrian who has entered a marked crosswalk. [6] Legally speaking, in most states crosswalks exist at all intersections meeting at approximately right angles, whether they are marked or not. [7]