THE parents of a toddler killed by a car outside his nursery have launched a campaign for a speed clampdown to stop another child's death.

Sarah Byrne and Steven Drew won a battle to have the speed limit on the A38 in Fernhill Heath reduced from 40mph to 30mph after four-year-old Thomas died more than three years ago.

The toddler suffered shock and haemorrhaging from multiple injuries after he stepped in front of a car as he and his mum

were collecting his sister Amy from school.

But every day they are furious to see that motorists continue to risk children's lives by ignoring the speed limit.

After thousands signed their first petition to get the speed limit reduced in the wake of Thomas' death, Steven and Sarah hope to get the community's support once again in their campaign to have traffic lights installed near the Chatterbox Nursery and Hindlip CE First School.

The couple - who are 33 and parents of three other children - say they couldn't bear another accident to happen.

Sarah said: "Even now I'm still petrified to use that road, three-and-a-half years on.

"Sometimes I stand there and it all comes back to me and I get flashbacks."

Steven said that he had made hundreds of calls to the police reporting speeding motorists but to no avail because prosecutions could not be based on the say-so of a member of public.

"It makes me really angry," he said.

"Once, I was driving down the road near the bollards where my son was knocked over and an articulated lorry overtook me on the other side of the bollards at about 50mph."

Sally Everest, manager of the Worcestershire Highways Partnership Unit in the Wychavon district, said methods designed to slow traffic outside the school, including narrowing lanes, painting road markings and additional signs were currently being considered.

She said installing a crossing that would be used at limited times would be dangerous because drivers would expect the lights to be on green.