Children write to council over road safety after classmate hit crossing road outside school
Shocked pupils have sent letters to a road safety team after one of their classmates was hit by a car outside their school, leaving her with a broken leg.
The Year 4 pupil at Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy was trying to cross Hickman Avenue after school had finished on Tuesday.
However, a lorry which had parked on the corner prevented her from seeing an oncoming car, which clipped the young girl and broke one of her legs.
This is the second time a pupil at the school has been hit by a car on the industrial road in the last 24 months, and staff and students alike have decided that enough is enough.
Her worried classmates have now sent handwritten letters to the road safety team at Wolverhampton Council in a bid to improve safety measures on Hickman Avenue, with one child saying: "I want you to make the road safer for me and my school friends."
Principal of the school, Adam Jewkes, told the Express & Star: "Hickman Avenue is a really busy industrial road, which admittedly is an odd location for a school.
"There was a big articulated lorry parked on a sharp bend which was really inconsiderate, as there's lots of traffic around.
"A Year 4 pupil stepped out onto the road and couldn't see the oncoming car because of where the lorry had parked. The car wasn't being driven irresponsibly. It was a sheer accident she stepped out at that exact moment.
"One of the parents of our pupils is a doctor and gave her immediate medical attention. They took the child into the school and she was then taken to New Cross Hospital."
