Horror Preston zebra crossing accident leads to calls for safety upgrade

Lancashire Post

Ten-year-old Talha Hussain explains what happened to him as he crossed Manchester Road in Preston.  There have long been calls for traffic lights to replace the zebra crossing where the 10-year-old was injured.

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00:00 Tala, this is the zebra crossing that you were on last week, isn't it, where you had

00:07 a bit of an accident?

00:09 Yeah.

00:10 What happened?

00:11 So I was coming back from school that way and I was almost finished crossing and then

00:18 the van hit my bike and then my bike went from there all the way to there.

00:26 And you flew, obviously, quite a long way, so you've gone over these railings behind

00:29 you and then you've ended up in the side road behind us.

00:33 It must have been a terrible shock for you.

00:36 Were you unconscious or did you stay conscious all the way through?

00:39 I stayed conscious.

00:41 But scary?

00:42 Yeah, scary.

00:43 And were you in a lot of pain straight away or did the pain...

00:46 A lot of pain.

00:49 And I can see you've got that bandage on your head now.

00:53 How's the rest of you?

00:54 You said you were hurting pretty much everywhere, is that right?

00:57 Yeah, hurting everywhere.

01:00 And just at the start of the summer holidays as well, so has it spoiled your plans for

01:04 the summer?

01:05 A bit.

01:07 No doubt you'll be better though by the time you go back to school in September, won't

01:11 you?

01:12 What would you say to people travelling up and down this road, drivers, about looking

01:17 out for children like you on the way back from school?

01:21 Just stop, even if there's nobody there.

01:24 To keep an eye out.

01:25 Yeah.

01:26 And until the children are right across the road.

01:28 Yeah.

01:29 And if you're crossing the road and you're walking, then look both ways and wait until

01:35 all of the cars have stopped.

01:38 Good advice, Tatler.

01:39 Hope you're feeling better very soon.

01:40 Thanks a lot.

01:41 Thank you.

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