A HEADTEACHER is calling for a safer road crossing for pupils at a busy junction.

Paul Adnitt, the head of St James CE Primary School, Greenacre Street, Clitheroe, is campaigning for warning signs and flashing lights on all the approaches to the junction with Woone Lane after several "near misses".

One driver who managed to stop just inches from lollipop man Jim Ward (pictured at the crossing point) as he helped children cross, told him she had not seen him.

Mr Ward said: "The drivers are going too fast because they don't realise there is a junction and a crossing just around the corner."

Mr Adnitt said: "I have been concerned about it since I started at the school three years ago. It has always been busy but I think there's more through traffic on Greenacre Street now.

"Three of the roads leading to the junction are two way, but one is one-way which adds to the confusion."

The junction is also used by children from the nearby St Michael and St John RC Primary School, Lowergate, and Ribblesdale County High School, Queens Road.

Local residents say it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured on the crossing.

The campaigners wrote to Lancashire County Council a year ago calling for new lights but no action has yet been taken.

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