These are also Road Traffic Offences.
The Scotsman - 14 March 2012 -
Pupil’s leg broken in hit and run near school
www.scotsman.com/news/pupil-s-leg-broken-in-hit-and-run-near-school-1-2172014
Extract:
“The 13-year-old, who is a second year pupil at Stewart’s Melville College, was crossing Queensferry Terrace when he was hit by a blue car. The driver drove off northwards towards Queensferry Road...
...Thank God it wasn’t worse. What happened is bad enough but this is a wake-up call. We are talking about lives here.”
...Thank God it wasn’t worse. What happened is bad enough but this is a wake-up call. We are talking about lives here.”
Fifth year pupil at the school, Kieran Kerslake, 16, said: “Last week another boy nearly got hit by a car. There is a need for a crossing because of the congestion and the amount of pupils crossing the road.
“I saw the boy lying on the road after the accident, I was a bit shocked.”
Lesley Easton, 41, who lives in nearby Ravelston and whose two daughters are pupils at Mary Erskine and Stewart Melville Junior School, said: “It was absolutely inevitable with people parking on corners, on zig-zag lines and double yellow lines. It was an accident waiting to happen...”
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