A fresh bid to reduce speed limits outside schools is taking another step forward, with backing from a mum whose son was killed.

Kaz Moore, whose "caring and loving" son Benjamin Munday died near Titchfield School after being hit by two cars while crossing Southampton Road in 2019, has backed a campaign to reduce speed limits around schools in Fareham to 20mph.

She has supported a Liberal Democrat motion which said "Twenty is Plenty".

Benjamin was 11 when he was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Mokka and a Volkswagen Golf.

He was taken to hospital but later pronounced dead.

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During the meeting of Fareham Borough Council last week, a letter from Ms Moore was read.

She said: “The drivers were not speeding and only going 30 to 40mph and that speed still killed my child.

"We must stop treating speed limits as targets. Almost 2,000 children are injured within 500 metres of their school each year.

“We need to remind drivers that speed kills, even at legal limits.”

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Cllr David Wiltshire said he made the motion after parents in his ward had alerted him to “near misses” on roads outside schools, including Castle Primary and Portchester Community School.

He said cars had left skid marks from heavy braking and parents were fearing for their children’s safety on a simple journey to school.

The councillor for Portchester Castle said: “Across the borough, roads outside our schools are treated like shortcuts and racetracks.” 

The motion said lowering driver speeds means safer streets, especially around schools where children are more vulnerable.

It urges Hampshire County Council to prioritise reducing speed zones as a matter of public safety to protect children outside schools.

The motion said reducing vehicle speeds during pick-up and drop-off times is important. A pedestrian hit at 30mph is seven times more likely to die than if hit at 20mph and crashes on 30mph roads account for more than half of all road casualties. 

Slower speeds also result in 25 per cent less air pollution and 50 per cent less noise, it added.

Cllr Wilshire also launched an online petition to further the “20mph speed limit on school roads” campaign.