Drivers in Davenport will have to be a whole lot more careful starting next week. As the new school year begins, police will resume enforcing lower speed limits in school zones.
Corporal Thomas Runge, from the Traffic Safety Unit, says motorists need to remember the speed limit around schools is 25 miles per hour.
"You've gone all summer with it being 35, so we really need to pay attention now that it's 25, from 7 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon. And we do it all day long - not just a couple hours - because kids are at recess, they're having practice, it's not just coming and going. So we need to remember it's from 7 to 5 all day, and it's 25. "
Runge says he's most concerned about the schools located along main streets in Davenport.
"You have Sudlow over on East Locust Street - a lot of children right next to Locust - a very busy road. You have Locust and Brady right there on the corner, tons of children coming and going, and crossing guards."
Motorists also have to be careful around school buses.There were 21 convictions for school bus violations in Scott County last year, and 560 across Iowa. He says a good explanation of the rules is on the Davenport Police Department's website.
