64 CCSD Students Have Been Hit Going To or From School, and Drivers Still Speed Past Arbor View High

by Ryan Rose

What Happened

On Monday, September 28, 2026, News 3 Las Vegas published the results of a speed check outside Arbor View High School. Reporter William Silverstein and a News 3 crew set up around 7:45 a.m., about 45 minutes before classes start. They used a radar speed gun one block north of the spot where McKenzie Scott was hit last year.

The posted school zone limit there is 15 mph. Some drivers were clocked at 7 mph over the limit. Others were going 28 mph. At least one driver hit 30 mph, which is twice the school zone limit. Later in the day, the crew recorded speeds of 30, 35, and 41 mph.

The crew also watched how traffic changed through the day. Morning drop-off at 7:45 a.m. had heavy speeding. The lunch window, from about 11 a.m. to noon, was calmer. Then early pickup, between 1 and 2 p.m., brought a big jump in traffic, and the speeding came back with it.

Parents who spoke with News 3 said they have seen some improvement since Scott's death, but only when police patrols and crossing guards are out and holding drivers accountable. One Arbor View parent named Jasmine said she worries about her kids walking long distances from home. Parent Justin Belanger described "speeders all the time," with drivers cutting in and out of lanes. Parent Valerie Montoya said the speeding will not stop unless drivers are being watched all the time. A student named Wyatt put it simply: there is no point in speeding through there.

The bigger number in the story comes from CCSD itself. The district reported 64 students hit in collisions while traveling to or from school so far this academic year. At this same point last year, the count was 59. So even after a fall of new signs, fresh crosswalk paint, and longer flasher times, the count is higher than it was a year ago, not lower.

Put those two numbers side by side and the gap is five students, which works out to roughly an 8 percent increase over last year. That may sound small on paper. It is not small for the five families behind it. And it matters because this school year was supposed to be the one where the numbers turned around, after a summer of planning and a fall of visible street work.

Why It Matters to Las Vegas Residents

Start with the families. Sixty-four students is not a small number, and every one of those is a kid who left home for class and got hit by a car on the way there or back. Plenty of CCSD students walk, bike, or ride scooters to campus. When a school zone limit is 15 mph and drivers are doing 30 to 41, a crash that might have been a bruise becomes something much worse.

This is also a commuter story. Arbor View sits in the growing northwest corner of the valley, where a lot of people drive through school zones on the way to jobs across town. The speeds News 3 recorded were not in the middle of the night. They were at 7:45 a.m. and in the early afternoon, the same windows when parents, students, and working drivers all share the same few roads. If you are in that traffic, you are part of the problem or part of the fix.

There is a money side too. School zone tickets are not cheap, and a speeding citation can follow you into your auto insurance rate. Earlier this month, Clark County reported that CCSD Police citations were up 33.7 percent and traffic stops were up 38.9 percent compared to the prior period. Parents told News 3 that drivers behave when police are present. If enforcement keeps rising, drivers who ignore the flashers are more likely to find out the hard way.

For homeowners and renters, school zone safety is part of daily life on your street. If you live near Arbor View or any other campus, you deal with drop-off traffic twice a day. A street where drivers race past kids is a street where you think twice about letting your own children walk, bike, or play near the curb. That is a real quality-of-life issue, and it touches owners and renters the same way.

Speed is the whole ballgame in these crashes. A driver going 15 mph has time to see a student step off the curb, hit the brakes, and stop. A driver going 30 covers twice the distance in the same second of reaction time, and needs far more room to stop once the brakes are on. That is why school zones are set at 15 in the first place. It is not about being fussy. It is about giving a driver enough room to stop for a kid who did not look both ways.

And it is not only an Arbor View problem. The 64 count is districtwide. Arbor View is where News 3 set up its radar gun because of what happened to McKenzie Scott, but rushed drop-offs and busy multi-lane roads next to campuses are common all over the valley, from Henderson to North Las Vegas.

Background and History

McKenzie Scott was an 18-year-old senior at Arbor View High School. On a Friday morning in May 2025, around 11 a.m., she stopped by campus to pick up her cap and gown for graduation. She was hit and killed by a car just steps from the school. Police said the driver stayed at the scene and was taken into custody, and authorities said they suspected impairment and speed were factors. Her death shook the Arbor View community and pushed student pedestrian safety to the front of local conversation.

Scott's death was one of many crashes involving students that school year. By the end of the 2025-2026 school year, more than 400 students had been struck by vehicles across Clark County, according to county traffic officials. That number led to the creation of a School Traffic Safety Working Group made up of 90 experts from every city and county in the valley, law enforcement agencies, CCSD, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, the Nevada Department of Transportation, and the Southern Nevada Health District.

The working group produced a report with 75 recommendations covering education, engineering, and enforcement. At the September 15, 2026 Board of Commissioners meeting, county staff reported on the first wave of changes. Crews replaced 1,601 traffic signs around school zones, installed 229 new signs, repainted or replaced 108 crosswalks and road markings, and trimmed 269 trees to improve visibility. Flasher times in county jurisdiction were extended to run 40 minutes before and after school.

At that same meeting, more than 50 students had already been struck on their commutes since the first day of school on August 10. Commission Chair Michael Naft said the county has "the blueprint" and the roadmap, and that the next step is consistently holding people accountable, FOX5 reported. Two weeks later, the CCSD count sits at 64. The signs and paint are in. The News 3 speed check suggests driver behavior has not caught up.

What Happens Next

The county worked through its fastest fixes first. Many of the 75 working group recommendations are bigger projects, like new beacons, signal changes, and street redesign near specific campuses. Those take design time, funding, and coordination with whichever agency owns the road, so expect them to roll out over the rest of the school year rather than all at once. Watch the Clark County Board of Commissioners and the CCSD Board of School Trustees agendas for follow-up reports.

The next number to watch is the student count itself. CCSD now has a clear year-over-year comparison: 64 this year versus 59 at the same point last year. If the extra signs, longer flashers, and higher enforcement are working, that gap should start to close as the fall goes on. If it keeps widening, expect more pressure on enforcement near campuses like Arbor View, where parents are already saying patrols are the only thing that works.

Crossing guards are part of that conversation too. Parents at Arbor View specifically named crossing guards, along with police, as the thing that actually changes driver behavior. A person in a bright vest holding a stop sign in the middle of the road is hard to ignore in a way that a flashing sign is not. Whether the district and local agencies can put more of them at the busiest crossings, and for more of the day, is a fair question for parents to raise this fall.

Enforcement is the part most likely to change in the short term. The parents News 3 spoke with were consistent: drivers slow down when police and crossing guards are present, and they speed back up when they are gone. CCSD Police stops and citations were already up sharply this fall. Drivers who use school zone streets as shortcuts should expect that trend to continue.

Ryan's Take

I spend a lot of my day driving through Las Vegas neighborhoods, and I pass a lot of schools. The thing that jumps out about this story is not the fancy fixes. It is the simple math. A 15 mph zone with drivers doing 30, 35, and 41 is not a sign problem or a paint problem. It is us. The county replaced more than 1,600 signs this fall, and it still took a TV crew with a radar gun to show that a lot of drivers are ignoring them.

From a housing point of view, families ask me about schools all the time, and they are not only asking about ratings. They want to know if their kid can walk there. They ask about the crosswalk, whether there is a crossing guard, and how busy the road in front of the house gets at 7:30 in the morning. A neighborhood where drivers slow down for kids feels different, and buyers can sense it even if they cannot put a number on it. Safe streets around schools are part of what makes a neighborhood a place people want to stay. The fix here does not cost the county a dime. It just takes all of us easing off the gas for a few blocks.

What You Can Do

Start with your own drive. Know which schools you pass and when they start and end. In Clark County jurisdiction, flashers now run 40 minutes before and after school, so the slow window is wider than it used to be. If you leave five minutes earlier, you will not feel rushed through a zone where police stops are up. And remember what News 3 found: the early afternoon pickup window between 1 and 2 p.m. can be just as busy as the morning.

If you have a student who walks, bikes, or scooters to school, walk the route with them once. Pick the safest crossing, ideally a marked crosswalk with a crossing guard, and make it the rule to use it every time, even if it adds a minute. Teach older kids to make eye contact with drivers before stepping off the curb, and to walk bikes and scooters across the crosswalk instead of riding through it. If there is a spot near your home or your kid's school that still feels dangerous, like a faded crosswalk, a sign blocked by a tree, or a flasher that is not working, report it to Clark County Public Works or your city. Be specific about the cross streets and the school.

You can also make your voice heard. Board of Commissioners meetings and CCSD Board of School Trustees meetings are public, and agendas are posted in advance. Parents at Arbor View have made it clear that patrols and crossing guards are what actually slow drivers down. If you feel the same about the school near you, public comment is the place to say it. And if you are shopping for a home near a school, drive the street at drop-off time before you write an offer. Ten minutes at 7:45 a.m. will tell you more than any listing photo.

One last habit for every driver in the valley: put the phone down in school zones. Most of the risk in a school zone comes down to two things, speed and attention. You can control both. Slow to 15 when the lights are flashing, keep your eyes on the crosswalks and the curbs, and give students extra room when they are on bikes or scooters. It costs you maybe a minute on your commute, and it could be the reason a kid gets home tonight.

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