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CONCERNED mums and dads who fear their children could be knocked down and killed are backing a campaign to slash the speed limit to 8mph.
Und guess which drivers will ignore it. If this ist residential road then the only drivers going too fast for the situation are .....
the people who live there! 
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Dad and former Coventry city councillor Rob Wheway, 56, of Allesley Old Road, Chapelfields, revealed his astonishing idea to lower the speed limit in the Evening Telegraph last week.
I can see why he was voted RAUS RAUS RAUS
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Mr Wheway, who is a children's play advisor,
Ach! A Noo Labia
non job as he could not cut it even stacking shelves on supermarket as this ist also .. all those people with ever so fast trolleys!
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said research showed that parents would no longer let their children out to play because they were so scared of speeding traffic.
Ah - the "research by the bloke who simply wrote a dissertation to get his useless MA/doctorate from "failing college" as part of the drone's "education education education" of wateered down qualifications.
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Now parents living in the Treherne Road area in Radford have backed the scheme.
Und they never say no to their kids chav demand no doubt.
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Mum Evette Hill, aged 24, a volunteer at Hill Farm School in Foster Road, said she could no longer let her children Sophie, three, and Stephanie, six, out to play with friends in the street.
Our under 13s do not go out unsupervised - even though our young "rogues" are very road sensible. Our kittens play in our garden, und in the parks und walk und ride with us on the Fells. I do not und never would allow them to play "tig/catch/footy" or whatever on a roadway with traffic. We do allow them to run errands - usually one of the twins goes with the youngest und our 12 year old girl ist sensible enough now to go to shops with her younger brothers. But running the odd errand down to local shop ist not the same thing as
playing on roadways where a child at play ist child at play und they forget to look in their youthful exuberance of playing chase und hide und seek. So this mama ist a FOOL! Especially given ages of her children. Und undesireables who pose danger may be more local than one thinks. Children trust people they know und I fear that with our isolate societies where we do not get to know our neighbours - we do not know what they are really like. (Huntley after all - was
trusted in that village. No one even guessed - least of all the person who employed him - und there ist competition for these jobs as they do pay fairly well und have a status - caretaking a school ist a responsible position after all - health safety/maintenance of property und so on)
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She said her car had been written off and her fence knocked down by cars who took the turn from Rollason Road into
Treherne Road too fast over the past two years.
Perhaps she parked her car too close to the junction or perhaps black ice caused the crash?
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Neighbours have even made their own signs, saying Free Range Children, to put up in the road to try to slow drivers down.
Really? But again as said earlier - you ensure child ist away form danger und if road ist busy main road - then they are fools to allow them to play there. If ist residential road - then ist themselves who are doing the speeding und behaving like planks.
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She said: "We just can't take that chance. The situation is horrifying.
"It seems there would have to be a serious accident before anything is done.
But ist still the residents who are doing the so-called speeding.
Perhaps they would do better to examine their own attitudes - such as taking better care of their kittens und being more neighbourly to each other.
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"When I was young, we were able to play out in the street all the time, having water fights and making new friends. Our children just can't do that."
I think she lived on a play street. Ist different. Swiss have play streets in their more built up residential areas - und if I had played out on main road unsupervised as little girly - my Papa would have been fined for it und I would have got a rollicking und a spanking for it.
But ist part of "blame everyone else". Children force you to be a grown up und responsible. I really became a mature woman when my eldest was born.
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