After accidents, Wilson School District changes rush-hour traffic rules

by Steve Reinbrecht

Drivers will have to mind new traffic rules starting Tuesday when parking or dropping off students at Wilson High School.

The goal is to help prevent “Mad Max” scrambles at parking lot exits, according to a note from Superintendent Curt Baker. Click here for a map.

The biggest changes will be at the entrance into the high school’s big parking, where Curtis Road crosses Dwight Road into the high school’s big parking lot, opposite St. Peter’s UCC.

In the mornings from 6:50 a.m. to 7:55 a.m., drivers will be allowed only to enter. 

In the afternoons from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., drivers will be allowed only to exit.

No changes will apply to events held outside the school day.

“We will also have staff deployed to attempt to calm the ‘Mad Max’ rush to exit.”

There have been at least four vehicle crashes on school property since school started Aug. 29, Baker wrote.

Drivers dropping off students also have changes.

“We will be attempting to reduce the double parking/stopping that is currently taking place on Grandview Boulevard in the mornings,” Baker wrote.

Drivers are encouraged to drop students off at another place -- on the Whitfield side of the Lower House.

Drivers dropping off students at the Lower House should enter the lower parking lot off Dwight Street and follow the cones around the upper half of the parking lot.