Castle Hill School students catch speeders on road safety day
Nov 27 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Castle Hill School students catch speeders on road safety day
SPEEDING motorists were made to apologise to pupils at a school charity and road safety day.
Students at Castle Hill School in Newsome and police officer Simon Hall armed themselves with a speed camera to catch a woman motorist and a van driver speeding outside the school.
Both drivers were warned about their driving by Pc Hall and ordered to say “Sorry” to pupils who had been staging an anti-speeding demonstration on Newsome Road South.
Pupils from the Newsome special school donned bright clothing and high visibility wear and took part in a road safety quiz to raise cash for Huddersfield-based national road safety charity Brake.
The school’s sixth-formers made banners for the protest.
Sixth-form teacher Sasha Styan said: “We caught two people. It was fantastic. I must have really embarrassed them when they had to apologise to the pupils.
“There’s a 30mph speed limit, but it’s outside a school so it’s quite high. Thankfully none of our pupils have ever been hit.
“Everyone had a good time despite the cold.
“We had a good response from motorists who drove past slowly.”
