The deputy head of a Wirral primary school has slammed parents' driving amid concerns for pupil's safety.
Helen Last, deputy headteacher of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Wallasey, has urged parents to take more care when driving and parking outside the school premises. This comes following disputes with neighbours on the busy road outside the school, as well as an incident last year in which a young girl was hit by a car door- leaving her with a broken arm.
Miss Last told the ECHO: "There's been issues with irate neighbours over parent's parking, on one occasion a nurse wasn't able to get to her night shift because her drive had been blocked by a parent.
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"Speeding is another real concern, we dread to think what could happen. There was incident last year where a little girl had been hit and knocked down by a car door last year- this broke her arm but thankfully she made a recovery. We're sick of telling parents, if you lived on this road you'd be frustrated."
Leadership at the school are now hoping to raise awareness surrounding the issue of dangerous driving and parking- enlisting student council members with speed guns borrowed from the police. Miss Last added: "We've borrowed some speed guns and we're going to get student council members out monitoring the speed of people driving by the school.
"We really just want tor raise awareness of how dangerous it can be. This will be educational and help the children to understand how fast vehicles may be travelling on Wheatfield Lane. We plan to share our findings with the police as it will also provide evidence to encourage more visits from them and increase their visible attendance at our school site.
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