Children heed police road safety message

Published 24 Jun 2009 13:58 0 Comments

POLICE OFFICERS visited St Bernadette"s Primary as part of their Stay Safe campaign, which aims to make drivers and parents aware of the dangers children face on the Wee County"s roads during the summer months.

Constable Alison Waddell said, 'High visibility patrols have been undertaken outside primary schools in Clackmannanshire as part of the Stay Safe campaign.

'The aim is to improve driver and parent awareness and to prevent road collisions involving children and young people during the summer months.

'The speedboard has been used to highlight to motorists the speed at which they are travelling. Although the speed limits for the roads where it has been used as part of this campaign may be 30mph or 20mph that does not mean these limits are the safest speed to travel at.

'Motorists should drive according to the road conditions. When the speed board was at St Bernadettes no vehicles were detected travelling in excess of the speed limit.'

In Clackmannanshire, from 1 June until 19 June, 17 people were issued with fixed penalty tickets for not wearing their seatbelts; five for using their mobile phones while driving and 12 for speeding. Several other minor offences have also been detected.

Four people have been stopped and reported for drink driving and a further two for driving while disqualified.

There have been six minor road traffic collisions in the same period. Fortunately none of them resulted in any injury and none involved children.'

Chris McMonagle, headteacher at St Bernadettes told the Advertiser, 'Anything we can do as a school to remind parents that there is a lot of traffic on the roads and that their children"s lives could be at risk, and also to warn other drivers coming up and down past the school can only be a good thing.'

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