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7 Tips to Improve Safety Around Your School School aged children should always travel in the rear of your vehicle and be in a seat belt. Children should always get in and out of the car using the rear kerb side door. Always drop your children on the school side of the road. Meet your children on the school side of the road and preferably in the supervised pick up area .                                   This is particularly important in wet weather. Never call to your children from across the road. Teach them to wait for you to come to them.                                     Talk about what they should if you are not there on time. Children under 10 years should always be supervised around traffic. Children under 8 years old should have their hand held in a traffic environment. Obey all the parking signs around your child's school. These signs are there to save lives. 40 km/h SCHOOL ZONES The 40km/h school zone slows traffic in the vicinity of the school. Albury Public School 40km/h school zones operate between 8.00am and 9.30a.m and from 2.30pm till 4.00pm. The 40km/h school zone speed limit must be observed even if school children cannot be seen. 40km/h school zones operate on all gazetted school days including staff development days (pupil free days). For further information check the RTA website www.rta.nsw.gov.au SAFETY AROUND SCHOOL BUSES There is a 40km/h speed limit for traffic passing a school bus that is picking up or setting down school children. This speed limit is for all traffic travelling in the same direction as the bus, whether the bus is stationary or moving. The 40km/h speed  limit must be obeyed when the rear 'wig-wag' lights on the bus flash. Flashing headlights on these buses also alert oncoming motorists that children are close by. The minimum penalty for failing to observe the 40km/h speed limit for traffic passing a school bus when the 'wig-wag'     lights are flashing is a $75 fine and the loss of 3 demerit points