ROAD SAFETY is in the spotlight in Heswall and Neston this week. A campaigning mother is waiting to see if she has won lower speed restrictions on busy Liverpool Road, where her eight-year-old son received fatal injuries after being hit by a car.

Since then Mrs Elaine Jaundrill, who has a nine-year-old daughter, has become a lollipop lady at the same spot helping children cross safely.

Her calls for improved safety, in memory of son Ben, has the backing of Ellesmere Port and Neston Council and is now going before Cheshire County Council, the authority responsible for Neston's roads.

Ben, of The Witterings, attended Neston St. Mary's Primary School. The accident was last October and he died three days later in hospital.

Wirral Council is warning parents and motorists to 'keep clear' of school markings or face a fixed penalty fine under a new road safety blitz. Parking outside schools is an on-going problem in places like Pensby.

Wirral's highways committee was last night passing proposals to make stopping on school keep clear markings during the day an offence. This will enable police to issue fixed penalty tickets.

Neston Police today launch a campaign to re-educate drivers to wear seat belts. They are concerned about the number of parents driving to school, with no-one in the car wearing seat belts.

"The driver is responsible for the children wearing a seat belt but adult passengers are responsible for themselves."

Police in Neston will be giving out fixed penalties to people not wearing seat belts. Meanwhile, Ellesmere Port and Neston MP Andrew Miller welcomes new moves to combat drink/driving by reducing the amount of alcohol in the blood. "One in seven fatalities on the road involves a driver over the legal limit," he says.

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