Pupils to hand out speeding tickets

Children in year six at Anlaby Primary School will be serving tickets they have designed themselves to errant motorists tomorrow under the watchful eye of local police officers.

The speed awareness event has been organised by the school, and with the assistance of community support officers and special constables from the neighbourhood policing team, the youngsters will operate a laser device to catch offenders and pull them over outside the school in First Lane.

Humberside Police said the children were keen to show drivers that they were concerned about the speed of vehicles passing the school.

A spokeswoman said: “The message the children are keen to communicate to drivers with the issuing of their tickets is that they take the issue of road safety seriously, and that speeding motorists are of particular concern to them, especially in the vicinity of the school.”

Community support officer Chris Wray added: “When we were approached to offer assistance with this project we were more than happy to accept. Despite having a heavy schedule of learning in their final year at primary school, these children still find the time to demonstrate their responsible and mature attitude to road safety, and they are to be commended for that.”

Although the numbers of people being killed or seriously injured on the region’s roads is falling, statistics show speed is one of the main causes of fatal and serious collisions.

Figures show that 70 per cent of drivers break urban speed limits each day. A total of 28 people died on the region’s roads in 2010, down from the 37 killed in 2009 and the 42 who died in 2008. A further 469 people suffered serious injuries in 2010.