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Five young girls knocked down outside their school in Liverpool

The driver was an elderly woman who is now being treated at the scene.

FIVE CHILDREN AGED between 11 and 13 were injured this afternoon in a road collision outside their school in Liverpool.

Police confirmed that a yellow Peugeot collided with the five girls on Belvedere Road near Princes Park in the south of the city.

They said a number of the girls have serious injuries.

“Others have minor injuries,” a statement said. “Their parents have been informed.”

The driver of the vehicle – a woman in her 80s – is also being treated at the scene.

The incident occurred at about 3.20pm today. It is understood the car mounted the path at around school closing time as the girls were getting on a bus.

Belvedere Academy – an all-girls school – posted an update on its website, stating:

Road traffic incident: Unfortunately there has been a road traffic accident outside the academy. School bus service will be significantly delayed. Please make arrangements to collect your daughter as soon as possible. Further information will follow

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    Mute Lurfic
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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:15 PM

    Surely people in their 80s should have to go through some form of driving test as they get on in years.

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    Mute nimchimpsky
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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:23 PM

    Yeah right. Mess with the grey vote at your peril.

    That said we don’t know if this is age related. It may not be, or it may.

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:23 PM

    Everybody should be made do their test every 5 years judging by the amount of people who can’t follow the rules of the road.
    Just because she is in her 80s doesn’t automatically mean she was at fault. She may have suddenly taken ill with no previous signs too.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:34 PM

    I’m not saying that this accident is her fault, or that all older drivers are bad, but motor skills do deteriorate as you get older, as does vision. This isn’t sufficiently taken into account in our current driving laws imo.

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    Mute Joe Harbison
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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:54 PM

    If you want to reduce road mortality you should probably ban people from driving under the age of 25 when people have less experience and are inclined to take more risks. I doubt that will get many green thumbs here though. Younger people kill and injure far more than older people and the number of younger people dying in accidents went up last year. Older people tend to have a lower risk of accidents. Remember people over 70 need a fitness to drive certificate from their doctor every time they renew their license and they can only get a 3 year license.

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    Mute Sinead Hanley
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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:04 PM

    Lurfic.. i agree.. I am not being ageist but i do see some older drivers taking dangerous shortcuts. I was entering roundabout recently and was looking right and next thing i spotted a ford fiesta driving across me against the traffic on the Newport roundabout in Limerick which is very busy. She took the 2nd exit on her right rather than driving the whole way around. She must have said her Rosary before she came out cos as she left the roundabout a lorry came along and missed her by seconds. And she didnt even notice

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    Mute Tony Hartigan
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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:05 PM

    Or maybe the children ran onto the road without warning.

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    Mute Sinead Hanley
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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:26 PM

    Tony.. The car mounted a path as the kids were getting on a bus.. So the article says

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    Feb 12th 2016, 7:21 PM

    That’s fair enough joe, you’re right. Young drivers are by far the most dangerous drivers. However, two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because young drivers are dangerous doesn’t mean we should’nt look at measures to ensure older drivers are still competent.

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    Mute nimchimpsky
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    Feb 12th 2016, 7:40 PM

    @Joe. How many younger divers do we have on our roads compared to older ones these days?

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    Mute Joan Featherstone
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    Feb 12th 2016, 8:43 PM

    They need to get certified by their GP…that’s here in Republic of Ireland, not sure what the situation is in the UK but I’d say it’s similar…it’s possible this person had a heart attack while driving?

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    Feb 12th 2016, 8:52 PM

    75 plus years license is for one year only.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:21 PM

    Hope all the girls will make a full and speedy recovery

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    Mute Andrew McQuillan
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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:39 PM

    If you’re going to slap in some randomers tweet, why not make it one written in intelligible English?

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    Mute Al-Right
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    Feb 12th 2016, 5:46 PM

    Christ! Let’s hope these school kids make a speedy recovery!

    If ever there was a case for retesting drivers over 60 this is it… probably only the tip of the iceberg too!

    to think, this old woman probably took her driving test in the 1950′s !!!

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    Mute Tony Hartigan
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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:07 PM

    Say nothing till you hear more.

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    Mute Leo Lowe
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    Feb 12th 2016, 6:14 PM

    ‘Drivers over 60′ – grow up kid! I can only assume that you are still wearing nappies. An apostrophe is not used to indicate a plural when writing years and the initial letter beginning a new sentence should be upper case. Mr Fowler would be embarrassed.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 7:45 PM

    There are no shortage of drivers on our roads that were given an amnesty due to backlogs years ago.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 8:17 PM

    All traffic should be made stop when school buses stop to allow children enter or exit, as done in US.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 7:38 PM

    Why measures to check old drivers are competent? Why not all drivers? Given that older drivers tend to be safe why single them out? Google search ‘convicted of dangerous driving’ and see what you find.

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    Feb 12th 2016, 7:42 PM

    Convictions don’t tell the full story though. We’ve all been stuck behind elderly drivers doing 27mph many, many times. Not making enough progress is a factor you’ll be failed on increasingly.

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    Mute Philip foster
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    Feb 12th 2016, 8:19 PM

    GET WELL SOON GIRLS

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