Winnipeg crash involving school patrol prompts debate around traffic safety

And a truck came this way, hit the car that was turning, T-boned it, it spun out, it hit the light, the child, the light fell and took out the fence. Brittany Bannerman's son is a patrol at Sargent Park School. His corner was at Sargent Avenue and Dominion Street on the morning of October 6th. The same spot where another student patrol was hit and injured later that afternoon. I feel like I'm on edge every morning now waiting for him to be off shift and continuing on his way into the school. And every morning I'm questioning whether it's going to happen again. Police say the child was taken to hospital in stable condition. Children attending this daycare were out playing in the yard at the time. The speed limit on this section of Sargent is 50 kilometres an hour. Christy Peterson serves on the board of the daycare. With the amount of cars and the speed that they're at, plus the kids, like sort of a recipe for disaster in my opinion. Police ticketed the driver for imprudent driving and disobeying a traffic control device, as well as failing to provide information to a person injured in an accident and failing to make a police report. But parents of children at the school and the daycare say more needs to be done to this intersection. I don't believe you should be able to turn either onto Dominion in either direction from Sargent Avenue. I also believe that there does need to be more traffic calming measures in the area. The city's 30-kilometer school zone bylaw doesn't apply to higher traffic regional streets like Sargent. Winnipeg School Division Superintendent Matt Henderson says the city should reconsider that. Along some of these large thoroughfares, we have a number of schools. They're sort of corridors for schools. So if you think about Ellis, we have John M. King and then General Wolf. On Sargent, we have Sargent Park and then there's Clifton. Councillor Cindy Gilroy says the city should use photo radar enforcement data to make targeted improvements. We know people are constantly speeding. That should be an area of focus for the city to make improvements on. Bannerman says patrols like her son will continue trying to help other students get to school safely. Cameron McLean, CBC News, Winnipeg.