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Soon, drivers in Kansas City, Missouri, will no longer be able to make right-hand turns on red traffic lights in school zones during school zone hours.

The ordinance passed in the city council Thursday with a vote of 13-0.

The new rule is a direct result of the death of Hazen Workman-Duffy. The 9-year-old died after a van struck her while she rode her bike across Longview Road at Food Lane while heading to Ingles Elementary School on Oct. 14.

Kids don't need to die on the streets of Kansas City. Any loss of life for a young person, especially a young person going to school, deserves our full policy focus," Mayor Quinton Lucas said Thursday.

Drivers wont be able to turn right on red once new signage announcing the rule is installed at schools. The cit

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