Liverpool mum urging drivers to be more alert as dark nights set in
Jo Colleran says there's still not enough education around road safety
As the dark nights set in, the mum of a little boy from Liverpool who was knocked down and killed on his way home from school is urging drivers to be more alert.
Figures show more than 1600 people were killed or seriously injured on our region's roads in 2020, that's down a fifth on the year before.
Six-year-old Bobby Colleran died in 2014 after he was hit a by van in West Derby.
His mum Jo's started going back into schools to highlight the dangers :
"To lose your child in such a horrendous way it scars you for life, images that will never leave my head.
"I would say (the drop in figures) is to do with lockdown and not as many people being out and about and I only hope the decline continues but I still see, day to day, so much bad stuff happening around our schools.
"When we were little we had the green cross code but there's nothing anymore and it's som important to me they're learned what to do around a road, especially now as it's darker and everyone's in a rush with Christmas".
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