An 11-year-old was hurt after being involved in a smash on his way from school.
Finlay Cooper was walking home from his final day of school at Cheadle Catholic Junior School, in Cheadle Hulme, when he was involved in an 'innocuous' collision, his dad Shane said.
Shane has now started a petition calling for a new crossing to be installed around the section of Turves Road where his son's accident happened.
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In response, Stockport council said it is installing new crossings across the borough - and 'will continue to seek funding to further increase the number, and quality, of walking and cycling crossing routes'.
"He was with his mates on his last day of primary school," dad-of-two Shane said.
"He saw a friend over the road, looked to the right and saw nothing and carelessly, he crossed the road.
"The driver had nowhere to go."
Finlay was left with a broken left shin and broken bones in his right foot.
Shane said his son has 'so far not needed surgery', but doctors cannot rule it out following more scans.
Specialists treating Finlay believe the impact was around 30mph, such was the severity of the break.
Shane has started a petition calling for a new crossing to be installed on the section of Turves Road.
In the petition, Shane says ‘Cheadle Catholic Infant and Junior school, Bradshaw Hall School, Oak Tree Primary, and Cheadle Hulme Grammar School’ are all ‘within a mile’ of the area in question, which ‘equates to thousands of children all utilising this stretch of road’.
Shane says there is no crossing between the Co-Op store on Turves Road and Asda on Albert Road - a distance of nearly a mile.
His petition, to the council, has already attracted 677 signatures at the time of writing.
"The council is very sorry to hear of the incident on Turves Road and wishes Shane’s son a speedy recovery," a spokesperson for Stockport Council said.
"The council works extremely hard to provide new crossings in the borough and has secured funding for many new crossings recently, including two currently being built in Cheadle on Councillor Lane and Bird Hall Road, paid for by the Mayor’s Challenge Fund.
"In addition, further pedestrian crossings are planned for Gatley Road, Wilmslow Road and Etchells Road, which will be paid for by the A34 Major Road Network scheme.
"We will continue to seek funding to further increase the number, and quality, of walking and cycling crossing routes within the borough."
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