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(My husband helped me write this up as he was soooo very concerned about what I told him.)
This morning, Mon. 2/11/2018, at 8:30 am my children and I were walking on the sidewalk in front of Thornhill school during morning drop-off. A brown, 4 door, Buick Enclave SUV (license plate withheld) at a high rate of speed passed the school's drop-off lane and came to an abrupt stop in the RED CURB zone directly in front of Thornhill school front gates, only a few feet from us which gave us a big scare. A female adult got out from the driver's seat, then got out 2 children (1) K (?) and (1) 3rd grade (?) from the backseat and quickly went into the school. A few minutes later, the female returned to the vehicle alone and did an illegal 3-point turn across Thornhill (double yellow) and went away at a high rate of speed.
Excluding obvious safety issues for us on the sidewalk and parents with children crossing Thornhill, the traffic violations are: speeding, RED ZONE violation, illegal U-turn, and speeding again!
This type of occurrence(s) happens all to often on Thornhill in front of Thornhill school. In no way, should any person - especially a parent or someone in charge of children, act in this intentionally reckless and hazardous manner, especially around our children.
The next time I see something like this I will post pictures of the adult and vehicle and get OPD intervention.
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A. School Areas Safety
2 Comments
Acknowledged City of Oakland (Verified Official)
Owen Rubin (Registered User)
As someone who lives just off Thornhill, I can second the bad behavior of motorists in this area. My biggest complaint to failing to stop AT ALL at stop signs, and making right turns on red without stopping (quite a lot at Thornhill & Mountain Blvd.)
When I talk to others, many feel they way I do: The Oakland Police Department says they are just to busy to bother enforcing any traffic laws. And everyone knows it. I mean, they won't respond to a break in in progress, we all know damn well they will not be patrolling for traffic violators. So the number of people speeding, parking in red zones, double parking, failing to stop at stop signs, illegal U-Turns, failing to stop before turning right on red, failing to yield to people in cross walks, failing to follow proper rule of right of way at 4 way stops, etc, etc.
Why do we even have rules of the road if OPD can't be bothered to enforce them?
It gets worse every month, I have complained before, and still I see no police presence here in the Montclair hills.