I am writing to you with regards to the behaviour of cyclists.
I have noticed how over the past few years, students from Spalding Academy especially, seem to have total disregard to the highway code, other users of the road, and pedestrians.
Just this week alone, I have witnessed cyclists in the Academy uniform riding through red lights.
Earlier in the week, it resulted in cyclists running into pedestrians that were crossing the road long after the lights had turned red. This included small children. It didn’t help that one of the parents was looking at her phone as she crossed rather than checking the welfare of her children that were on their way to primary school.
I have emailed the school in question several times without reply, even though I have tried to assist them in identifying the students by providing video footage of the offenders. Whilst this is happening outside of the school, DfE requires schools to have policies in place to deal with such matters.
Obviously nothing is being done about it as this morning, cars ahead of me that were pulling out of St Thomas’s Road had to jam on their brakes due to cyclists having obviously gone through a red light, with one child pulling a wheelie as he went.
If anything is said to these children, they are often met with verbal abuse, their vehicle being spat on, or hand gestures.
Before long, someone is going to be seriously hurt, whether accidentally or intentionally as disgruntled road users take matters into their own hands.
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