Vic: Kids lobby for safer road crossing

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2004
Vic: Kids lobby for safer road crossing

Students at Melbourne's St Kilda Primary School have dressed up as cars in a bid to
improve a pedestrian crossing where a 13-year-old girl lost her arm in an accident.

Initial improvements were made to the pedestrian crossing after MARIA SOKOLOVA'S right
arm was severed when she got pinned under a tram in June.

But trams still speed past the school on Brighton Road without any traffic controls.

A VicRoads spokesman says the organisation is aware of the problems at the crossing
and will not sit on its hands.

Students today dressed as cars made from cardboard boxes to push for a longer pedestrian
crossing period and proper controls for trams so people aren't stranded on the tracks
halfway across the road.

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KEYWORD: CROSSING (MELBOURNE)

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