By JUDD WEIL
Hutch Post
Mount Hope, Kan. — The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) announced on Nov. 10, six-year-old Brooklyn Schmidt of Mount Hope is one of three south central Kansas winners in the 2022 Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day poster contest.
The contest is sponsored annually by the KDOT and other traffic safety organizations.
Brooklyn is the daughter of Jeffrey and Rachel Schmidt. She attends Andale Elementary School.
Contest winners receive a bicycle from the Kansas Turnpike Authority and a helmet from Safe Kids Kansas.
The idea of the contest is getting children to think about traffic safety and to present those ideas on posters.
A total of 497 children in Kansas, ages five to 13, participated this year. Brooklyn won in the regional category for kids ages five to seven.
Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day is a nationwide initiative to improve traffic safety and decrease traffic deaths.
For more information, visit KDOT's Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day website.
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