Road accident victim's mum says safety measures are not coming soon enough
SAFETY measures for pedestrians crossing the busy A16 – where schoolgirl Lisa Burton was killed last year – will be in place by Christmas.
But Lisa's mother, Julie Ward, who has campaigned to get motorists to "Slow Down For Lisa" since the 14-year-old died in a collision with a car, says it is not soon enough.
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Accident: Lisa Burton.
Lisa was returning home from Cordeaux School and had just got off a bus when she died crossing the road just yards from her home in Utterby on February 24 last year.
Julie, 48, who now lives in Louth, said: "The coroner said it should be 30 mph and insisted there should be a pull-in for the bus as well as a pedestrian crossing.
"It is all very well them planning improvements for the bottom end of the village, but there are families with children at the top end, where Lisa was killed, who need it.
"You can't expect children to cross there. We don't want anyone else to suffer the way we have."
Read what Lincolnshire County Council has said in today's Grimsby Telegraph.
3 Comments
by Mark, Ludborough
Friday, September 03 2010, 11:39AM
“You are right Observer about how the accident happened. In my opinion the bus shouldn't be stopping on such a busy road where there are inadequate safety measures in place for passengers to cross once dropped off. Back in the days when i was at school i had a good 5 minute walk to get to the nearest bus stop, i often used to walk further to save money on the bus fares too. I don't know the proposals for the safety measures about to employed but surely it would make sense to have a 'safe' main bus stop with pedestrian crossing where all children are dropped off and those who are unfortunate to live right at the other end of the village naturally have longer to walk home once dropped off.
I see all to often buses stopping every few minutes, some even at the request of the passenger at an unofficial stopping point.
Safety is of primary importance here but campaigning to slow the traffic down even further when speed isn't (and wasn't) an issue is a waste of taxpayers money.”
by Observer, Humberston
Thursday, September 02 2010, 8:34PM
“Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this young girl walk out from the back of a bus straight in to the path of a car? As Mark has said, speed wasn't the cause of this accident. Why keep blaming the road and speed when neither were the cause of the accident?”
by Mark, Ludborough
Thursday, September 02 2010, 12:07PM
“The coroner also said that speed wasnt a cause of the accident.”