DANGEROUS driving conditions outside a school saw a dinner lady collide with a teacher on a bike with serious consequences, a meeting has heard.

Penketh Parish Council debated the situation outside St Vincent's Primary School last week, and members called for parents to be banned from picking up their children from directly outside the school.

Clr Eileen Dempsey raised the issue and said the dinner lady had been in a car when she collided with a teacher on a bike, which left the teacher badly hurt and needing hospital treatment for a leg injury.

She added: "There have been incidents where children have nearly been hit by cars outside the school. It's just chaotic."

Clr Dempsey says she wants residents access only on Finlay Avenue and Ditchfield Road between 8am and 9.15am and from between 2.30pm and 3.30pm.

She added: "I hope that will stop them parking because otherwise it's going to take a child to be killed before anything is done."

The meeting then heard parking restrictions are already in force.

Clr David Keane said: "The only solution is better policing. Whatever you do, the full answer is enforcement."

Clr Dempsey said: "The police and teachers have tried talking to the parents but it's like talking to a brick wall with some of them."

Clr George Warburton added: "The only real answer is another access. The headmaster has cried out about it but they have never really taken it seriously.

"But at the end of the day it's got to be about policing. If they issue tickets it will stop for a while."

The council resolved to ask the borough council's highways department to visit the area.

sbailey@guardiangrp.co.uk