Crosswalk Near Misses

(SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb.) — Safety expert and leader of the local community emergency response team (CERT), Bob Hessler, also serves as a local school crossing guard.

If you are concerned about your children’s safety, please read this story, and share.

By Bob Hessler

What I’m going to post here is something that was almost a very tragic accident.

I was at my crossing guard job, I had students standing and waiting to go across the street. I raised the STOP sign, and traffic had stopped, as the students started walking across the street, I noticed this pickup that kept creeping up to the cross walk. I stopped the kids and walked towards her to stop. She rolled the window down and told me I don’t need to yell at her, she didn’t do anything wrong. I told her she needs to stop until the students are gone, I told the kids to get back and she puts her pickup in reverse and 2” away almost struck 4 students as she backed up. I yelled at her to stop that she almost hit some students.

I was so concerned for the safety of the students that I didn’t get the license number, but it was a pickup. A witness called the police about the situation, so hopefully they got the license number.

So in all three vehicles went through the cross walk this afternoon and I had one this morning with about a 6” of scrapped frost off the windshield and about hit a student.

Please pay attention when driving!! I have seen too many accidents with serious injury, and I don’t want it to happen or see it again. I thank God he was protecting all of us today.