IN reply to Mrs J O'Malley (Letters, December 16), while I sympathise about the number of cars parked at school times, what on earth has that got to do with parents trying to get a pelican crossing?

It is the people who walk to school who are desperate for a crossing on Preston Old Road, Blackburn, not the ones in cars. It is a completely different problem from that caused by parked cars. Every school on that main road from Blackburn to Preston has some sort of crossing except St Francis.

They did have a school crossing for over 20 years until someone decided it did not warrant one and in the last few months, there have been three serious accidents, including one death.

With a school, a library and a clinic in the area, a pelican crossing is a must before anyone else is knocked down, and, one day, Mrs O'Malley herself might need a crossing to cross the road.

And just remember, the school, library and clinic were all built before any houses on Cherry Tree Lane.

D WALTON, Sunnyside Avenue, Cherry Tree, Blackburn.

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