Kids at a Lanarkshire major college have been pressured to cross a harmful highway by themselves for per week after the native authority couldn't present a crossing patroller.
Pupils at Spittal Main in Rutherglen needed to cross the busy Croftfoot Highway by themselves within the week main as much as the Christmas break.
The highway is recognized domestically for being an accident blackspot.
In January of this yr, 55-year-old Angela Marshall was killed after being hit by a automotive on the highway, whereas a boy was hospitalised after being struck there in June.
Nonetheless, South Lanarkshire Council say that workers absences meant they have been unable to supply a patroller, even by the highway is taken into account one among their priorities.
A involved mother or father, who's on the Mum or dad Council at Spittal, slammed the scenario.
They informed Lanarkshire Stay: "It was very abrupt and there was no warning, only a sudden message about it. It is a time of yr the place it is darkish early, which makes the highway much more harmful.
"Site visitors backs up from the lights as far again to this crossing inflicting individuals to edge out onto ongoing visitors to cross, and regardless of the request by many for visitors lights, and even a petition, nothing has been modified, and now this. It was very disappointing to have this, and hopefully it will not be a difficulty that occurs once more. It was an actual danger for the youngsters."
South Lanarkshire Council say the choice was unavoidable attributable to a "excessive degree of absence" with crossing patrollers.
Kevin Carr, Head of Amenities, Waste and Grounds Companies at South Lanarkshire Council, mentioned: "The Amenities service operates a precedence absence administration system and, if an absence happens at a web site which has a better precedence, a crosser might be moved from a lower-priority web site throughout the geographical space to supply cowl, relying on what is feasible on the time.
"The location at Spittal PS is taken into account a precedence and, when there was an absence there this week, we made each effort to supply cowl from one other web site.
"Sadly, nonetheless, there's a excessive degree of absence throughout the service and it wasn’t doable to maneuver a crosser from one other web site to Spittal PS, and so we notified the college of the scenario."
Mother and father have been knowledgeable that a crossing patroller ought to be again when the college returns in January.
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