IN OCTOBER last year the Gazette reported on Dursley residents' concerns about congestion around Rednock School when parents drop off and collect their children.

In the piece, a former resident of the town, Nic Stevens, said: “It just takes one driver to be distracted and one child to be knocked over before all hell breaks loose. It’s an accident waiting to happen.”

Nic wasn’t alone in these views and many others in the community voiced concerns that allowing the chaos to continue without change would lead to disaster.

On Monday, those people who made the effort to expose the issue and affect positive change – with no success – were sadly but predictably proven right.

How many times must incidents like this take place before a sincere commitment to stop it happening again is made?

This time the child managed to walk away from the incident with only bruises.

If no change comes of this accident, perhaps some action will be taken when a child breaks his or her leg. And if no change comes of that, maybe a child losing their life will do the job.

Too often we settle for reaction over prevention, and that has to change.

There is nothing the Gazette wants less than to report on a fatal accident on Kingshill Road in days, weeks, months or years to come.