Traffic-light fault makes mum cross

NO way through . . . Sarah with daughters Poppy (right) and Daisy

A MUM was horrified when she dislocated her two-year-old daughter’s elbow while pulling her off the road to escape oncoming traffic.

The tot screamed when her mother, Sarah Allen, pulled her up quickly after she tripped on the pelican crossing on Ripponden Road near its junction with Huddersfield Road, Oldham.

The crossing was later timed at giving just THREE seconds between the green and red man warnings.

“I had to pull her up quickly because the crossing just doesn’t allow you to get across in time at the best of times, and cars were coming round the corner towards us,” she said.

Mrs Allen (35), who was holding her Poppy by the hand when she fell, was also pushing four-month-old Daisy across the road in a pram.

She said: “I have always had an issue with that crossing. It’s impossible to get across the road in time — but what happened to Poppy has made me try to do something about it.”

Mrs Allen later took her distressed daughter to hospital – where staff relocated the tot’s dislocated elbow.

Oldham council has reported the problem to the agency responsible for retiming crossings




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