ALMOST a year to the day that Freddie Perry died following a road accident, Didcot finally has its first 20mph speed limit.

And his family have vowed to continue their fight to make all roads near schools in the town 20mph.

Freddie’s father Lea Perry, of Oxford Crescent, said he was “overwhelmed” with emotion when the lower speed limit was approved.

After a year of campaigning and raising £10,000 to pay for the lower speed limit in Oxford Crescent where Freddie died, Oxfordshire County Council also approved a raised hump, marked out as a crossing point, to allow people to cross more safely.

Mr Perry, 40, a Stagecoach bus driver, said: “It’s been a hard fight, but now he hasn’t died for nothing.”

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Freddie, 10, pictured above, died on September 11 last year, when he ran out between parked vehicles and was struck by a car driven by a teacher from his sister’s school.

A coroner ruled the death was an accident and speed was not an issue.

 

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