THREE boys were knocked down by cars in separate accidents in Worcester at the weekend, sparking road safety warnings.

The first was a nine-year-old in collision with a car outside Sainsbury's in Windermere Drive, Warndon, at 5pm on Friday.

The second incident involved a seven-year-old who was injured almost two hours later in Little Chestnut Street, The Arboretum.

And a 14-year-old suffered fractures in both his legs after an accident in Bath Road, Worcester, on Saturday, May 15, at around 2pm. The Air Ambulance took the teenager, who has not been named, to Birmingham Children's Hospital, where he is described as being in a comfortable condition.

The other two were taken to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital but were not detained.

The accidents happened almost two weeks after a petition for a pedestrian crossing in Windermere Drive was presented to Worcester City Council at the Guildhall.

Campaigner Pam Clayton, a retired Elgar Technology College teacher, said this weekend's accident showed more needed to be done to make the road outside Sainsbury's safer.

I am enraged,she said. I feel desperate and fear for the worst, and I really wonder what more we can do.

Hospital for three hurt on roads Worcestershire county councillor John Buckley agreed: I'm very concerned somebody else has been hit.

I have been pressing for a pedestrian crossing on Windermere Drive for almost three-and-a-half years.

Obviously there has to be a serious accident before those who control the budget will ensure that a crossing is put in place.

I am now going to write to the county and city councils to have some assurances that they will provide the much-needed crossing, before a fatality occurs.

Worcester City councillor Lucy Hodgson, of the St Martin ward, Warndon, added: "We need to make sure children know how to cross the road and how fast cars can go," she said.

"We will work with fellow councillors to try to have a crossing put in place."

No comment was available from the city council highways department as we went to press.