"I'VE lost one child to cancer, I don't want to lose another in a road accident."

Stark words uttered by Blackpool father-of-two David Schulz, who is appalled by some drivers on the school run at his daughter's school.

Because of his concerns, David, of Finsbury Avenue, has been taking Amanda, eight, to Baines Endowed School late.

David has recently been informed Amanda was recorded late 119 times in the last school year, and 15 times this year. The educational social worker's letter also indicated that supervised classrooms were now open from 8.45am.

But David maintains it's "unsafe" to take Amanda to school at that time.

"You have got children walking behind parked vehicles and cars reversing. There are massive holes in the pavements. Buses are double parking because of vehicles on the bus bay. Someone is going to get killed and nobody's doing anything about it," he said.

He has contacted Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden and Blackpool Borough Council to request more railings, a pedestrian crossing outside the Penrose Avenue school plus a crackdown on poor or illegal parking.

"I I have already lost one child under the age of two through cancer; I don't want to lose another," he said.

David is making his pleas public after reading of Blackpool Borough Council's new Kerbcraft scheme in The Citizen.

The scheme, launched at Claremont Primary School last month aims to educate parents who set bad examples by parking near school gates, on zig-zags and double yellow lines.

A council spokeswoman said Baines Endowed makes "constant requests to parents to be more considerate in their parking" and that a school crossing patrol and traffic calming measures were in place.

Road safety workers considered permanent railings potentially "more dangerous " as drivers might drop children off on the roadside of the railings rather than on the pavement.

"We are looking to instigate a Kerbcraft course at the school," she added.

Police had reported an ease in congestion since pupil's start times had been staggered.

Blackpool Transport will inform bus drivers not to double park at stops where cars are parked but to pull up "at the first available safe point where they can gain access to the kerb".

Glenis Taylor, Baines Endowed head teacher, said: "I think parking outside schools is a national issue and not particular to this school. It's an issue which we take very seriously."

"Probably the situation outside our school before school is even better than most others."