At 40th anniversary, Norman’s Safety Town rolling strong

Students ride their bikes through a green light at Norman’s Safety Town on Thursday, June 29. Photo by Blake Honaker/OIDJ
As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, Safety Town is helping the Norman community in ways its founders never could have envisioned. “We have noticed that children are now playing backseat drivers, telling their parents to get off their phones or telling them not to speed up through a yellow light,” Officer Thomas Zermeno said about graduates of the summer program that teaches 5- and 6-year-olds basic rules of the road.