THE mother of an eight-year-old boy who was involved in an accident with a car in Longworth Road, Horwich, is demanding action to curb speeding.

Mrs Margaret Egan watched from her window as her son Lee was hit by a car outside their home last Wednesday.

She said that luckily Lee escaped with only bruising down one side of his body after he was thrown into the air and landed on the road.

Mrs Egan said: "Something like this has been waiting to happen. It's amazing nothing has happened before now. Lee was very lucky that he was not badly injured. "Fortunately the car was not speeding at the time. It wasn't the driver's fault."

Mrs Egan claimed some vehicles drive up the road at 60 and 70mph and there are no speed restriction signs.

She said there were a lot of children living in the street and in the past residents had asked for sleeping policemen to be installed.

But that was refused because the road was on a bus route.

Mrs Egan, who says she has the support of other residents, has complained about the problem to Horwich Town Mayor, Councillor Mrs Barbara Ronson, who has promised to look into it.

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