Home and School Committee president Christine O’Brien said two orange flags were sitting useless in the school staffroom after a children’s crossing outside the school, on Ava Avenue, was removed last year while a nearby roundabout was being built.

The school was told replacement poles would be provided once the roundabout was finished but a council and RTA inspection found this was no longer possible as the crossing would be too close to the new roundabout.

No arrangements for an interim crossing were offered and the council says it needs RTA approval for a new crossing.

“Enough is enough,” Mrs O’Brien said.

“It is ridiculous that our children’s lives should be put at risk because of buck-passing.

“Regardless of where crossings should be placed and when this can be completed, why can’t someone just provide two poles so we could put up our bright orange children’s crossing flags and provide some sort of temporary solution.”

It was a sentiment backed by the mother of a Border Christian College student, 14, who was hit by a car on Tuesday as she tried to cross Elizabeth Mitchell Drive.

The woman, who asked not to be named, said parents had feared for years their children would be hit.

“When my oldest daughter ran in the door and told me what happened yesterday I just thought ‘oh my God, it’s finally happened’,” she said.

“Where the pathway comes out of St Hilaire, where my daughter was hit, the speed limit changes from 40kmh to 70kmh.

“People coming out of the roundabout from Thurgoona Drive only start slowing down where that path crosses the road and people coming from the direction of the school sometimes speed up as they approach the 70kmh zone.

“I recently saw a P-plater come flying past the college and towards the university screeching his tyres and doing fishtails the whole way.”