Two young people from Sunbury schools suffered serious assaults in the same week.
It is time for serious consideration to be given by parents, politicians and Surrey Police to the problem of ensuring students can travel safely to and from their schools.
The assaults happened in mid-afternoon, in full daylight, on major public roads.
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Because of the manner in which any member of the public brave and foolish enough to intervene in such incidents will now invariably be ill-treated by our police forces, few if any will now intervene.
A small fortune has been spent on art works in the ill-designed Sunbury Cross subway network.
They contribute nothing to safety and should be in a more prominent location.
The network is so convoluted that even minimal, let alone comprehensive, CCTV coverage is just not possible.
Young people realise this and large numbers of them risk their lives crossing the busy roads at ground level, even though the roundabout makes no provision for crossing.
The roads most commonly crossed are the slip roads on the west side of the roundabout and the Staines Road West dual-carrigeway.
Two of those roads have no traffic lights to provide any halt to their traffic flows.
The barriers provide no deterrent to young people who face the alternative of using a subway system they know is unsafe.
I wonder how many parents are aware their children risk their lives every school day?
Before someone is killed it is time for pedestrian crossing facilities to be provided, at ground level, around Sunbury Cross.
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