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Broken Arrow Police Step up Pedestrian Safety Efforts near Schools

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Broken Arrow Police are working to improve pedestrian safety around schools.

Sgt. Keith Cook said there hasn’t been an uptick in the overall number of accidents involving pedestrians.

"But what we're seeing is an increase in our school-age students going to and from school that are being involved in some of these collisions, so that's what we're trying to focus on," Cook said.

One piece of the department’s strategy is education.

"What we'll be doing is some information provided to parents and students through the school system and, hopefully, get information out there about pedestrian safety and things that parents and kids can do to make their trip to and from school safer," Cook said.

The other piece of the strategy is enforcement. Drivers not yielding to pedestrians near crosswalks will get $109 tickets. So will jaywalkers.

In Broken Arrow’s most recent auto-pedestrian collision, a 15-year-old girl hit while riding a skateboard died from her injuries two days later.

Matt Trotter joined KWGS as a reporter in 2013. Before coming to Public Radio Tulsa, he was the investigative producer at KJRH. His freelance work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and on MSNBC and CNN.