WORCESTER News readers have been making their voices heard about problems with parking and traffic on a road near a school after a teenager was hit by a car.

We reported on our website on Wednesday how police and paramedics were called to an incident outside Nunnery Wood High School, Spetchley Road, when a 13-year-old boy was understood to have been hit by a green Ford Focus.

The boy was left conscious but suffering a head injury. He was immobilised using a spinal board and taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

However, people who live on and use the road have contacted your Worcester News saying something needs to be done to prevent anyone else from getting hurt. Keith Burton of the Spetchley Road Residents' Assoc-iation said it was lucky the teenager was not killed in the incident which happened about 8.15am on Wednesday and urged for action to be taken immediately. He said: "Recently, people have been stepping up their actions to try and get something done. Parked cars and speeding traffic combine to make the road an accident waiting to happen. Traffic engineers, the police and the sixth form college all shrug their shoulders and pass the buck."

He said the association has even contacted health and safety officals, but had not heard from them. On the Worcester News website - www.worcesternews. co.uk - CJH, Worcester, wished the injured boy a full recovery and wrote: "I have driven down this road this morning, and there are cars parked on both sides of the road, in effect making it a single lane only. At the busiest times of the day you also have buses negotiating the parked cars, together with traffic for County Hall." However, she said motorists alone were not to blame.

"There are faults on both sides - motorists and pedestrians, but it is the sheer amount of parked cars which turns it into a very dangerous section of road. When will something be done about it?"

Anyone with information on the incident in Spetchley Road on Wednesday morning is asked to contact police on 08457 444888 quoting reference number 105s/160108.