SPEEDING motorists are being told to slow down after pupils at a Worcester primary school clocked drivers going almost twice the limit.

In the space of two hours Dines Green Primary School pupils found most cars travelling down the A44 Bromyard Road were exceeding the 30mph limit.

One car was registered on a hand-held radar meter to be travelling at 56mph - almost twice the legal speed.

The pupils are now designing a poster to be distributed across the county to warn motorists of the dangers of speeding.

More than 60 people have been injured in accidents on the A44 over the past three years. Eleven were killed or seriously injured.

On Thursday, pupils were given demonstrations of speed monitoring equipment and taught about the dangers of speeding. The Safety Camera Partnership, which carried out the initiative, then took the seven to 10-year-olds in three groups to the Bromyard Road to register the cars' speeds.

There was also a screen showing motorists' speeds as they approached the railway bridge.

"They were surprised at how fast the cars were going," said Rosemarie Johnson, Year 3 teacher at the Tudor Way school.

"It was a fascinating time for them. We were monitoring the speed of the traffic coming out of Worcester as well as going into the city.

"We could see that as cars approached the city boundary they were going faster. Cars coming in were a lot slower.

"The pupils were all wearing fluorescent vests and we had to get them to stand back so the motorists couldn't see them recording their speeds."

As a result of concerns over road safety, a permanent mobile enforcement site will be installed near the junction with Broadway Grove by the Safety Camera Partnership on Monday, April 7.

"I was pleased to see the number of motorists who visibly slowed down after seeing their speed flash up on the speed indicator device," said Richard Fowler, area road safety officer for Worcestershire County Council.