Schoolgirl killed crossing Florida Road
A young school pupil was knocked down and killed this morning while crossing Florida Road on her way to school.
TRAGEDY struck this morning when a young schoolgirl was knocked down and killed as she was crossing Florida Road.
According to an eye witness, Louis Jacobs, the girl’s parents had stopped outside Europa to drop the girl, her brother and a friend off so she could go to school at Gordon Road Girls’ School.
“The brother and friend crossed the road and as she was crossing and was close to a parked car, she was hit by a man driving a Golf. The front light of his car was damaged, but the girl was killed,” he said.
Shocked and upset, Jacobs raised concerns about the problem of speeding in the road which he said was ongoing and that he and two restaurant owners had almost been taken out by speeding cars.
“There’s been talk for four years about putting speed bumps in the road, something needs to be done! There have been so many accidents and near misses. Metro Police based in the road can’t chase them on foot. I feel that, as in overseas countries, there should be a no under 25 limit on drivers of high performance cars. These youngsters race up and down the road in Ferraris, Maseratis and BMWs, dicing each other,” he said.
He said Enforce officers in the road had also spoken to him about the problem.
