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St Thomas CofE Primary School in Lydiate is one of the first to have a Slow Down For Bobby zone.
Slow Down For Bobby zones in place at schools THE first of Slow Down For Bobby banners to encourage drivers to slow down near to schools have been placed around Maghull and Lydiate. After being backed by Maghull Town Council, local borough councillors approved ward funding to be allocated for Slow Down For Bobby 20mph zones to be introduced outside all of the primary schools in the Lydiate and Maghull area. The zones are promoted by the Bobby Colleran Trust, set up by the parents of six-year-old Bobby Colleran who was tragically killed in a road accident outside his school in West Derby in 2014. The campaign to introduce the scheme in Maghull and Lydiate was taken up by driving instructor Dave Wilson and former Maghull lollipop man Dave Hughes who were concerned about the driving they saw outside the local schools. The schools to have the zones put in place are St Thomas CofE Primary School, Kenyons Lane, Lydiate, Northway Nursery and Community Primary School, Dodds Lane, Maghull, and Summerhill Primary School, Poverty Lane, also in Maghull. Zones will be introduced to the other schools in the area over the next few weeks. Dave Wilson thanked school staff for their assistance in putting the banners up. “It is great to see people getting involved with this,” he said.
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SPEED CAMERA PLEA AFTER YET ANOTHER VILLAGE ROAD CRASH Woman had to jump into hedge to avoid being hit by car after it collided with lampost Report by Henry James CALLS are being made for speed calming measures to be installed on a notorious stretch of rural road in Lydiate after a woman was nearly struck by a vehicle after the driver lost control and hit a lamppost. The pedestrian had to jump into a thorn hedge to avoid the car which had lost control on a sharp bend in the road between Mairscough Lane and Southport Road on Wednesday, April 24 shortly after 8.30pm. Parish councillor, Edie Pope is now calling for more traffic calming measures along this stretch of road. She said: “I fought for two years to have the speed reduced here from 60mph to 40mph but it is not enough. “Someone could get killed on this stretch of road. “It would cost £60,000 to £70,000 to install
The place where the accident took place, and inset, the scene when a car crashed into a house.
a speed camera. “We now have had two incidents in two weeks as a motorbike recently went over a car as well.” This stretch of road has appeared in the Champion before. In November 2016 a car crashed through the dining room window. of
a house on the road. Merseyside Police confirmed they were called out to a report of a silver Volvo car colliding with a lamppost. Two passengers sustained light injuries. Sefton Council has been contacted for comment.
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