YOUNGSTERS from a Dursley primary school joined the town’s neighbourhood policing team to conduct speed checks on Uley Road.

Pupils from Dursley Church of England Primary Academy teamed up with the town’s police to advise speeding drivers on the importance of obeying the speed limit on Friday, July 8.

The children noted the speed of every vehicle and found that around 15 per cent of traffic moving along Uley Road was exceeding 35mph.

The children had also designed their own ‘advisory speeding tickets’ which were issued out to drivers if they were travelling over the speed limit.

Both the school and the police would like to remind motorists that, as summer holidays are upon us, a growing number of pedestrians will be making use of the road.

Dursley PCSO Josh Griffiths said: “If you are travelling at 30mph and hit a pedestrian, they would have an 80 per cent chance of survival.

“If you were travelling at 40mph, they would have a 10 per cent chance.

“Think: when your child walks in a 30mph stretch of road, what speed would you want motorists to be driving?”