DOUBLE yellow lines, a pedestrian refuge and pavement extensions are not enough to improve road safety at a blackspot.

Robert Taylor and Sarah Marshall are not convinced the new measures will prevent children being knocked down in Hermitage Street, Rishton.

Their six-year-old son Alan is recovering in Blackburn Infirmary following an accident nine days ago. He is one of several involved in similar incidents in recent years.

After Robert and Sarah, of Fielding Street, Rishton, were featured in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, a statement was issued by Hyndburn Borough Council to say they had been monitoring the road.

And a spokesperson said measures to calm the traffic would be installed within three weeks.

Yellow lines and parking bays will be placed on a stretch of Hermitage Street and the current pelican crossing between Parker Street and Derby Street will be improved. To prevent speeding, Please Drive Carefully signs will be put up, the road surface will change colour and the carriageway narrowed.

But Mr Taylor said similar measures installed in High Street, Rishton, had done little to prevent accidents.

He said: "Drivers are still speeding and paying so much attention to not hitting the new islands and extended pavements that they don't see people trying to cross the road.

"The parking bays don't really stop children from crossing between parked cars.

"We'll just have to see how effective the measures are."

Sarah added: "I think installing humps in the road is the only real way to slow the traffic."

The council spokesperson said: "Evidence from earlier schemes suggests that the measures the council is implementing will greatly reduce the number of accidents, slow the traffic and make crossing the street far easier."

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