Youngster's Lucky Escape Is Catalyst for Road Safety Campaign

The Journal › September 18, 2009

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Summary

A PETITION calling for road safety improvements after a young girl was hit by an ambulance has been lodged with council chiefs with over 3,000 signatures.

The petition was started by John Rourke, of Hexham, after his 11- year-old daughter Katie was hit by an ambulance as she walked across a pedestrian crossing at the town's Allendale Road, an accident blackspot, at the end of June.

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Youngster's Lucky Escape Is Catalyst for Road Safety Campaign

Katie, a pupil at Hexham's St Joseph's Middle School, was taken to the town's Queen Elizabeth Hospital...

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