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 Park
Safe
The Evening News has launched a campaign to
target parents who are endangering children's lives by parking
dangerously near schools.
The Park Safe campaign urges people to think twice before parking on double
yellow lines and on keep clear signs.
Last year saw 38 children seriously injured on the county's roads and our campaign
aims to target the parents who park dangerously.
Does your school have problems with parents parking dangerously? Contact reporter
Dominic Chessum on 01603 772428 or email dominic.chessum@archant.co.uk
 Watch
a video report from Brundall Primary School
The story so far:
January 22: Parents' inconsiderate
parking is causing double trouble at St William's Primary
School, Thorpe St Andrew. Story
December 4: Parents and teachers
at George White Middle School say children's lives are being
put at risk because of drivers
speeding past
as well as clogging up the street with their parked cars. Story
November 24: The Evening News'
Park Safe campaign to improve the safety of our children
going to and from school has received a major boost from
the Government. Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander has
announced that £15
million is to be made available to help set up walking
to school initiatives. Story
November 22: Drivers parking
near the entrance of Magdalen Gates First School and using
the same street as a cut-through to avoid busier roads nearby
are
putting
children's
safety
at risk, it was claimed today. Story
November 15: Parents
are being urged to walk their children to school in a bid
to
stop the
dangerous traffic
congestion
outside a city school. St Michael's VA Middle School in Bowthorpe
is the latest school to come on board the Evening News Park
Safe campaign. Story
November
9 Parents who put children's lives at risk by parking
dangerously are being urged to take extra care when taking
their children to and from a
city school. Ranworth First School is the latest school to back the Evening
News Park Safe Campaign after becoming the first in the city to ask us for
help in highlighting the dangers. Story
November 7 The Evening News campaign to make the city's roads safer
for our children has stepped up a gear. Thousands of leaflets detailing the
aims of our Park Safe campaign have been printed and were distributed for the
first time last night. They are designed to make parents who park irresponsibly
on the double yellow lines and keep clear zones outside schools think twice. Story
October 27 Parents who put children's lives at risk by parking dangerously
outside city schools were today warned to take even more care after the clocks
go back this weekend. Story
October 25 What a difference a holiday makes. Just a month after our
photographer captured parents clogging up roads with irresponsible parking
while dropping off children in Sprowston, the same street is a different world
during half-term. Families living nearby say they are enjoying the week's respite
from the chaos at school start and finish times. Story
October 18 Worried parents are campaigning for better road safety
outside their children's schools, where they say lives are being put at risk.
Father-of-four David Self contacted the Evening News about safety issues in
the streets around Colman First and Middle School and the Clare School following
the launch of our Park Safe campaign. Story
October 13 Parents are being urged to lift-share and stagger the times
they pick up their children to help tackle the traffic chaos that builds up
at the beginning and end of the day at a city school. Norwich High School for
Girls is the latest school to be featured in the Evening News Park Safe campaign. Story
October 11 Concerned parents have spoken out about traffic problems
on Newmarket Road putting their children's lives at risk on their way to and
from school. Town Close House Preparatory School is the latest school to be
featured in the Evening News Park Safe campaign. Story
October 10 Children trying to get to a Norwich school are facing chaos
at peak times - and even buses are struggling to get through the snarl-ups.
Bus company First has appealed to mums and dads to park sensibly on bus routes
as it emerges that problem parking is causing havoc for the 27 bus close to
Firside Middle School, Hellesdon. Story
October 7 Parents who have battled for more than two years to get
a dangerous road outside a city school made safer have welcomed the news that
traffic calming measures could be put place in to stop speeding drivers. Story
October 5 An elderly man suffered a badly broken leg after being knocked
off his moped by a mother who had just dropped her children off at a busy school.
The man, who has not been named, was riding a Honda moped which was hit by
a blue Mazda car in Middleton's Lane at the junction with Kinsale Avenue, Hellesdon,
on Tuesday morning. Story
October 4 Youngsters at a village school have been walking to school
with their teachers to celebrate International Walk to School Month. Waving
brightly-coloured flags from countries across the globe, about 170 pupils at
Spixworth First School put their best feet forward. Story
October 4 Concerned parents say their children's safety is being compromised
by irresponsible parking near a village school. Trowse Primary School is the
latest to be highlighted in the Evening News Park Safe campaign. Story
October 3 Parents who use 4x4s to drop their children off for school
have been warned to take extra care after a survey revealed the vehicles might
have “dangerous” blind spots. The A-pillars - the columns which
separate windscreens from side windows - in a number of 4x4s are so large they
can obscure entire groups of children from the driver's view. Story
October 2 Firefighters have
thrown their weight behind the Evening News' Park Safe campaign,
warning that parents are hampering their efforts to get to
an emergency with their inconsiderate parking. Story
September 27 Worried parents
say children's lives are being put at risk because of “selfish” parking
around three schools in Sprowston. The parking problems at
Sprowston Community High School, Cecil Gowing First School
and Falcon Middle School are the latest to be highlighted
by the Norwich Evening News Park Safe Campaign. Story
September 21 There is a history
of parking problems at Brundall Primary School in Braydeston
Avenue, which is in a cul-de-sac with no parking nearby.
Parents say they are forced to park on the main road and
side streets. Although they are parking legally, the number
of parked cars on the main road causes chaos at picking up
and dropping off times. Story
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