Metro Police Push Back to School Traffic Safety

We're less than a week away from public school starting and already school zones are in effect.
Metro Police wants to remind people around the valley that kids will be filling up crosswalks.
There is zero tolerance for speeding through school zones.
Officers say they're seeing a lot of people driving while distracted.
Lieutenant Rich Fletcher with Metro’s Traffic Division: “what we're seeing a lot lately is distractions through cell phones, texting, GPS for people new to the valley, newspaper, makeup, cigarettes. It’s just a host of distractions that are minor in nature compared with the big picture of kids in an intersection.”
The kids are getting the message. Chanel Ericsson is going into fourth grade this year. On Tuesday she got a lesson on getting off and on the bus, plus reminders on how to stay safe on the way to school.  
“I'm being careful and I watch where I'm going and when I'm at like one of those places where you have to cross I look both ways first,” says Ericsson. She also says she knows to stay in the crosswalks and not to run.
A regular fine for a moving violation is $195, but those double in a school zone, so if don't pay attention when you drive through a school zone be prepared to pay.