LAS VEGAS (FOX5) —A crossing guard positioned himself in front of a speeding car that approached a crosswalk outside Pinecrest Academy St. Rose Wednesday morning.
“I had no time for thought. All I saw was what was about to happen, and I reacted without thinking about it. If you think about it, it’s going to be too late to do anything about it,” said crossing guard Richard Jones.
The incident happened near East Cactus and Maryland Parkway.
Parent describes close call
A woman, the mother of a kindergarten student, says she and her husband were walking their daughter up to the crosswalk. She says out of nowhere a car came racing up and was not stopping. She says a group of kids started walking when crossing guard Richard Jones, with All City Management Services, jumped in front of a group of kids and started waving his stop sign and yelling at the car to stop. She says it did stop, with only five feet to spare…