Birmingham's oldest lollipop lady knocked down

Dec 15 2008 by William Oliphant, Birmingham Mail

PARENTS in Birmingham have launched a road safety campaign after the city’s oldest lollipop lady was knocked down by a driver outside their children’s school.

A petition with more than 500 signatures is being circulated among parents at Four Dwellings Primary school demanding signs and lights on Quinton Road West, Quinton.

The move came after 74-year-old Maureen Floody was left in hospital with broken bones in both her arms after she was hit by a car in front of horrified children she was helping to school.

Marie Fenny, 30, who has three children at the school, met MP Gisela Stuart (Lab, Edgbaston) outside the school to discuss the issue.

She said: “It’s ridiculous. If you go to any other school you see signs all over the place, there’s lights, there’s all sorts of things telling you to slow down.

“Here it just looks like any other road, you wouldn’t even know there’s a school on it.”