Howard County Police will focus on traffic safety around school zones for the first couple weeks of the school year.
Students return to school on Monday, and Howard County Police will be increasing their presence around schools for the first couple weeks of the school year, according to a department press release. Officers will target drivers speeding in school zones, enforce seat belt laws and trail school buses to make sure vehicles stop when the red lights are flashing during a drop off–-a violation that can earn drivers a $570 fine. "We hope that police presence around the schools will send a message to drivers to slow down," said Police Chief William McMahon in a statement. "Students throughout the region will be walking and driving to and from school and we want to make sure every one of them arrives safely." In addition to increased patrols around…
Police took a suspect into custody at Arundel Mills Mall, reports say.
Update 4 p.m. Police are charging a suspect involved in a pursuit earlier today with mutiple traffic and drug-related criminal charges, according to Maryland State Police. Officers arrested Darin L. Sympton Jr., 22, of Brooklyn Park, MD, in a clothing store at the Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover after a pursuit on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that stemmed back to an incident in the City of Baltimore. Baltimore Police reported observing Sympton participate in a suspected drug deal, leading to the chase and eventual arrest in Anne Arundel County. State troopers found more than a dozen caplets of what they suspected was heroin and several bags of marijuana. --- The original brief is below. A Baltimore City police officer crashed on …
Council members want the county to seek speed control strategies beyond speed cameras.
Howard County department heads faced hours of stern questioning from the county council Thursday on the proposed $179 million of spending in the FY12 capital budget. The Department of Public Works fielded much of the scrutiny after County Executive Ken Ulman highlighted stormwater management and infrastructure improvements as some of the most important additions to the FY 12 budget, alongside education. Speed Control The issue of speeding in communities and school zones drew a lot of discussion as the county considers speed cameras as a possible remedy to what Councilwoman Courtney Watson called “the No. 1 complaint from citizens in the county.” The proposed FY 12 spending budget for intersection improvements, which includes speed control…
Dave A.
10:13 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012
I have seen vehicles speed around a bus as it was loading/unloading. The fact that nobody walks to manor Woods has nothing to do with the camera vans parked there. Thgere is bus traffic and vehicle traffic in and out of the school. Vehicles fly thru that area. It has been some years back but there was a pretty serious accident with people trapped right there in front of the school. Some of the … more ›