Drive safe: Speed cameras placed outside 2 schools in St. Marys

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2 cameras placed astatine Crooked River Elementary, different 2 astatine Sugarmill Elementary

Speed cameras placed extracurricular 2 schools successful St. Marys

ST. MARYS, Ga. – Four velocity cameras person been installed extracurricular 2 schools successful St. Marys, intending to bring an further furniture of protection.

“We anticipation that volition origin greater attraction to the information you request to dilatory down,” said Chief Mike Wilkie, with the St. Marys Police Department.

The cameras are being funded by public-private concern betwixt the metropolis of St. Marys and the institution that produces the cameras.

News4Jax took a thrust on with Wilkie, who says aft the Police Department conducted a velocity study, it recovered 2 simple schools were dealing with speeders.

Charlie Smith Senior Highway and Winding Road are notorious for cars speeding faster than the posted limit, authorities said. That’s wherefore these caller high-tech cameras person been installed for the information of the schoolhouse community.

These cameras volition statesman issuing citations aft Labor Day.

“We were clocking cars coming done present astatine 55 and 65 mph each hours of the day,” said Wilkie.

Wilkie said drivers person a inclination to prime up velocity connected Charlie Smith Senior Highway since it’s a consecutive road.

If you’re speeding, these recently installed cameras volition drawback your licence plate, tally a registration cheque and past nonstop a citation. Two cameras are astatine Crooked River Elementary and 2 much are extracurricular Sugarmill Elementary.

“If you are driving astatine 35 mph, you person little than 30 seconds earlier you brushwood your archetypal crosswalk,” Wilkie said.

The main says Winding Road has constricted visibility and tin truly beryllium a information due to the fact that of the unsighted curves. He said that a 3rd grader was deed by a operator who was speeding past twelvemonth extracurricular Sugarmill Elementary.

“I’m not definite if velocity portion cameras would’ve stopped that but helping dilatory radical down mightiness support that benignant of happening from happening again,” said Wilkie.

Before citations instrumentality effect, drivers volition person a informing for the archetypal 30 days of installation, per Georgia Law. After Labor Day, it’ll outgo drivers $75 for a archetypal discourtesy and $125 for a 2nd discourtesy and consequent offenses.

Violators who don’t wage volition person their tag suspended upon renewal.

Wilkie said idiosyncratic tin protestation by mail. Residents successful Camden County volition beryllium required to spell in-person for an administrative hearing.

“We’re not doing this successful immoderate consciousness arsenic a gross measurement for the metropolis of St. Marys,” Wilkie said. “We privation radical to dilatory down and my elemental reply erstwhile idiosyncratic says, ‘You’re conscionable doing this to rise money,’ my elemental reply is if you’re not speeding determination won’t beryllium immoderate wealth raised.”