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9:40am Saturday 6th February 2010 in
‘HOW would you feel if you had killed me?’... that was the question speeding drivers were asked by 10 and 11-year-old children.
The group of year six pupils at St Francis’ Primary School, Feniscowles, used a speed gun provided by the South West Neighbourhood Police Team to pull over drivers in Cherry Tree Lane on Wednesday morning.
A handful of motorists were stopped for speeding, one of whom was using a mobile phone and another was not wearing a seatbelt.
Headteacher Sharon Thomas said they faced some ‘tough questions’.
She said: “We have a problem, as do a lot of schools, with people driving too fast outside school and parking on the zig zag lines.
“I understand that parents are rushed, but we’ve got to put the children’s safety first. The children asked them how they would feel if they had hit one of their classmates. It has more effect coming from the children themselves.”
Community beat manager Lyndsey Armstrong and PCSOs Amy Wolski and Seppo Murphy oversaw the Operation Pathway initiative.
PC Armstrong said: “The speeding motorists were offered the chance to speak to the children instead of a prosecution.
"The children were quite intimidating! The drivers were very apologetic and promised to take on board what the pupils said.
"They felt ashamed that the children in the area saw their driving mistakes.”
Comments(16)
onlyonesimongarner
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10:15am Sat 6 Feb 10
Driver Awareness wrote:Sir your are a clown of the first degree
Public humiliation like this, used to take place in China and probably still does in North Korea Where in law does it say that if you don't subject yourself to this humiliation, you will be prosecuted? I suggest the authorities read up on Section 21 of the Theft Act - Blackmail and/or Bribery. Take your choice. There is no support for speeding or inappropriate driving but I suggest that any motorist who is subject to this illegal behaviour should sue all parties involved including the school who are brainwashing the children by supplying them with emotive questions. This does nothing towards improving road safety. It's exploitation.
Driver Awareness
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10:51am Sat 6 Feb 10
slackerbtch
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12:57pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Little Diamond
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3:04pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Lifeinthemix
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5:46pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Little Diamond
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6:41pm Sat 6 Feb 10
onlyonesimongarner
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7:21pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Lifeinthemix wrote:keep taking the pills you loser.
Hi All. Ok people time to see what is really going on here.... . Here we have the state using our children to force law, it starts with law then turns green... . Hitler did exactly this which places the children against the parents, he called them Brown shirts. . They will be Green shirts today because they will use the children to force the carbon taxation and legislation, the plan is to have your child keep fils on the families usage of everything they can tie a green label to. . See beyond the spin and see what is really going on in our schools
No1spark
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9:41pm Sat 6 Feb 10
JohnR1
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12:28am Sun 7 Feb 10
No1spark wrote:Here Here! - this is what I would say to any of the w*nk*rs that blithely speed past me every day up Bull Hill in the new extended 30 limit. Why do I do 30, because if someone killed my kids through speeding, I would want to kill them. So it is not unreasonable to expect the same if I killed theirs, ergo I do not speed.
Driver Awareness, Great Harwood, If the tactics used by the police have a positive affect & save the lives of children thats good. people don't give a toss about the Law its OK for them to speed & use mobile phones, but if it happened to there children then it would be completely different.????
Stone Cold
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9:03am Sun 7 Feb 10
onlyonesimongarner wrote:Bang on mate, top coments. Personally I think they should have just let Mrs.T shout at the offending drivers. That is one scary lady with amazing lungs!!!!!
Driver Awareness wrote: Public humiliation like this, used to take place in China and probably still does in North Korea Where in law does it say that if you don't subject yourself to this humiliation, you will be prosecuted? I suggest the authorities read up on Section 21 of the Theft Act - Blackmail and/or Bribery. Take your choice. There is no support for speeding or inappropriate driving but I suggest that any motorist who is subject to this illegal behaviour should sue all parties involved including the school who are brainwashing the children by supplying them with emotive questions. This does nothing towards improving road safety. It's exploitation.Sir your are a clown of the first degree The children that you say were being exploited are the ones at greatest risk from these idiots. Before you comment you should witness Cherry Tree Lane at each end of the school day. It is an accident waiting to happen And to the lazy woman who daily parks on the Zig Zags at the schoool entrance ( Yes you know who you are), you look like you could do with some excercise , so why not park out on the main road and walk the 200 yards to school. Personaly I will extend the Zig Zags along the whole road, so that the Kids can get in the gates without fear of a nutter mowing them down whilst trying to execute a six point turn so that they can get back out of the road. We have to face the fact that St Francis , like most other Primary schools was built in an age when Kids walked to school rather than travelled in the Chealsea Tractor right up to the school gate, and is therefore not blessed with facilities for 100 Cars for 20 minutes each end of the day. Most of the parents I see there, are fit and healthy, and would therfore not suffer do parking on Preston Old Road and walking around the corner. Well done Mrs T for at least trying to raise awareness of this issue
Stone Cold
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9:04am Sun 7 Feb 10
Driver Awareness wrote:Oh shut up you pompous pr1ck.
Thank you for your comments 'onlyonesimongarner, ewood' but please allow me to enlighten you further. Anyone who uses either emotion or an insult to justify unlawful behaviour is, more often than not, a person who has something to hide. I say again; I do not condone, in any way, reckless, careless, dangerous or any inappropriate driving - such persons should be taken off the road - but there's no excuse for this school, or even the police, to take the law into there own hands. Let me put it more simply; You are stopped for 'allegedly' exceeding the speed limit - on somebody's say so (no court or right of defence) and if you do not subject yourself to this humiliation, you will be given a Fixed-Penalty ticket for £60.00 (at least). If you subject yourself to these children's (the school staff) questions then we will forget about it!!!! So if you decide to 'pay-up' instead of going into the school, your fine will be enforced. As plain a criminal offence that one can ever witness. It's akin to unlawfully demanding money by using a menace. Read again 'onlyonesimongarner, ewood' Get yourself an education and think about it.
Stone Cold
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9:05am Sun 7 Feb 10
Lifeinthemix wrote:Ah, it's mashed banana and straight jacket time again!
Hi All. Ok people time to see what is really going on here.... . Here we have the state using our children to force law, it starts with law then turns green... . Hitler did exactly this which places the children against the parents, he called them Brown shirts. . They will be Green shirts today because they will use the children to force the carbon taxation and legislation, the plan is to have your child keep fils on the families usage of everything they can tie a green label to. . See beyond the spin and see what is really going on in our schools
Lifeinthemix
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11:48pm Sun 7 Feb 10
Lifeinthemix
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11:57pm Sun 7 Feb 10
pip-pip
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11:22am Mon 8 Feb 10
Lifeinthemix wrote:I know lifeinthemix can present some loopy posts on here, but he is spot on with this one.
Hi All.
Ok people time to see what is really going on here....
.
Here we have the state using our children to force law, it starts with law then turns green...
.
Hitler did exactly this which places the children against the parents, he called them Brown shirts.
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They will be Green shirts today because they will use the children to force the carbon taxation and legislation, the plan is to have your child keep fils on the families usage of everything they can tie a green
label to.
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See beyond the spin and see what is really going on in our schools
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Driver Awareness says...
10:01am Sat 6 Feb 10
Where in law does it say that if you don't subject yourself to this humiliation, you will be prosecuted?
I suggest the authorities read up on Section 21 of the Theft Act - Blackmail and/or Bribery.
Take your choice.
There is no support for speeding or inappropriate driving but I suggest that any motorist who is subject to this illegal behaviour should sue all parties involved including the school who are brainwashing the children by supplying them with emotive questions.
This does nothing towards improving road safety. It's exploitation.