Zebra pops up in Essex
November 29, 2019
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Another week, another school in desperate need of a safe crossing outside its entrance. Dunmow St May's School in Essex has been campaigning for a zebra crossing without success so this week we offered their protest a boost with our pop-up zebra crossing. Pupils were joined by a local councillor and two police officers as the inflatable crossing was snapped by the local press.
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For the thousands of children who struggle each day to cross busy streets outside their schools, the streets can feel like a battleground. In the same week we were in Essex helping Dunmore St Mary's School, we heard from a local lollipop person with an account of their own experience.
"I am a lollipop lady outside a school in Essex. There is no help, i wrote down a number of a parked car on zigzags, the driver was so angry shouted out the window “if you write down my number again i will run you over you stupid bitch” I told my supervisor and she needed witness to do anything. i have no camera and no witness to hand, so i will be crossing children around parked cars.:0("
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The pop-up zebra crossing has been designed to be installed on any road in less than a minute. Spokesperson at the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), Yannick Read, said: “The idea may be tongue-in-cheek, but the issue is deadly serious; with over 2,000 children killed or seriously injured each year on our roads, parents should never have to battle to have a genuine crossing installed.”
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