Gobowen safety campaigners meeting council chiefs
A site meeting will be held between safety campaigners and council chiefs tomorrow to discuss the urgent need for a pedestrian crossing near a village school in Shropshire.
Campaigners have been battling for nearly a year for the crossing in St Martins Road, near Gobowen Primary School, amid fears it was just a matter of time before a pedestrian was knocked down on the busy route.
Then earlier this month 11-year-old Oliver Lloyd suffered serious injuries after being in collision with a car at the spot where the campaigners say the crossing should be built.
More than 30 campaigners attended at meeting of Selattyn and Gobowen Parish Council last week to press their case, amid concerns that Shropshire Council was not giving the proposed crossing enough priority.
Shropshire Council has said that despite the high level of public concern, the crossing scheme would have to compete for funding alongside other proposed road safety schemes in the county.
Tomorrow's meeting will see Shropshire Council's cabinet member for highways Councillor Claire Wild see the congestion for herself and meet some of the campaigners.
Campaigner Jennie Tilling, who has to cross St Martins Road every day to take her two young boys to school, said she was delighted the talks had been arranged.
She said: "Something has to be done now because the road is so dangerous.
"We said an accident would happen and that is exactly what happened."
