Road safety officials have praised a Bath Chronicle campaign that names and shames dangerous driving and parking outside schools.

Photos printed in the paper even show mums and dads ignoring traffic cones at the side of the road to drop their youngsters off.

The Road Safe initiative – which has seen a journalist from the paper involved in collision with one of the cars as feelings run high – has been running for almost three weeks.

Reporters and photographers have been talking to, and publishing pictures of, drivers who park on zig-zag lines outside schools.

Bath and North East Somerset Council school crossing patrol co-ordinator Diana Barkes said: “I am delighted that the issue is now being highlighted,

“You need to educate people and until their attitude changes then nothing will be achieved.

“If the Chronicle campaign helps people come to their senses then it is a job well done.”

The authority’s road safety officer Mike Baugh agreed the way forward was for different groups to work together.

The Chronicle has pledged to continue visiting schools and nurseries from the state and independent sector and is appealing for readers to let the newsdesk know where parking violations occur, where people speed through traffic-calmed areas or park on hazardous corners.

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