Alamogordo NM
8-07-2023 12:34am

Alamogordo Public Schools Back to School Tips and Roadway Safety

Thursday is the First Day of School in Alamogordo. Check out these going back to School Tips from the Alamogordo Public School District and School Zone Traffic Safety Reminders from the New Mexico Department of Transportation.

Planning ahead for the new school year can reduce stress and help you feel less
overwhelmed. Here are a few tips:
1) Go early to grab school supplies, clothes, and complete paperwork. 

2) Help lessen your child’s anxieties about going back to school. Hint: Take a trip to the school, peek through the window, walk around a bit, talk about expectations and fears, and offer reassurance.

3) Practicing the school routine before school begins. Children staying up too late now can make it tougher to settle into a new routine the week school begins.

4) Attend school open houses. These events provide valuable information for students and parents/guardians so you don't have to chase it down if you don’t attend.

With school days are just around the corner and the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) District Two wants to remind the traveling public

and pedestrians to think about traffic laws when in or near a school zone.

General traffic laws:

• No person shall exceed fifteen miles per hour while driving a vehicle on a highway while passing through a school zone (unless otherwise posted)

• A traveling vehicle shall yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within designated walkways

• Every pedestrian crossing the roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway

• No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close that is impossible for the driver to yield

• Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of an approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle

• Crosswalks may be established over highways abutting a school or the grounds adjacent to a school, and all children crossing the highway shall be required to do so within the marked crosswalks

• Every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and observe proper precaution upon observing any child or any confused or incapacitated person on the roadway.

Motorists are asked to watch for children when school is underway. When crossing an intersection it is advised to look in both directions. The NMDOT wants to encourage all to observe school zones.

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