The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A ten-year-old girl is so worried about speeding cars outside her home she has written to the council calling for lower speed limits.
Amelia Pack has been compelled to put pen to paper to add her voice to a growing campaign for a 30mph limit on Spalding Road, Holbeach, writing: “I may be ten but I think I should have a say on the speed limits”.
Amelia, who lives on Spalding Road and walks along it en route to and from school said: “I think the speeds on this road are awfully high.
“Children, teenagers and adults who walk across this road are enraged about how fast people are going in their cars/vans.
“At the moment the limit is between 30mph and 40mph but people think they can sneak another 10mph.”
Last month The Spalding Voice reported a call by Holbeach mum Kelly Wilson for the speed limit to be dropped after she and her five-year-old son Kye had to “leap out of the way” of an out of control car as they walked home from school.
Kelly had written to Lincolnshire County Council, claiming the 40mph stretch of road met the criteria to be a 30mph limit.
She is still waiting for a response.
She was just the latest to add her voice to calls for a lower speed limit – now joined by Amelia.
Her mum Kim said: “Amelia worries about walking down Spalding road a lot just due to the sheer speed that cars travel.
“I myself was knocked over outside our house along Spalding Road back in 1996 which worries her.
“On numerous occasions when walking along the road with her dad from school she has seen cars fly along that road.”
In her letter to Lincolnshire County Council, Amelia, a pupil at Holbeach Primary Academy, says the last time the speed limit was reviewed was in 1982, adding: “Many others (adults) have tried sending letters to you but you have never changed anything.
“So if you got a letter from a child (me) you may make the slightest change, by either putting permanent speed cameras or changing the speed limit.
“I and the rest of Holbeach will be very happy.”
Amelia is now waiting to receive a reply from the county council.
