Pupils hurt on 'recipe for disaster' school routes

Ms Blackham said a child has been treated for a fractured arm due to injuries received hereRoutes for pupils walking to school are a "recipe for disaster" after a number of children were clipped by vehicles.

She said a child had been treated for a fractured arm and two others had been clipped in the last two weeks of term.Paths to Katharine Lady Berkeley's school and Kingswood Primary, in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, involve narrow pavements, pinch points, traffic and a "convoy of coaches". "We've got children walking on a narrow pathway [and] cars parked along one side of the road. All of these factors with the school buses coming through this narrow pinch-point causes the buses to mount the kerb where the children are walking."

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