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| School-run drivers in Somerset 'targeted with nails in road' | School-run drivers in Somerset 'targeted with nails in road' |
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| Police are investigating claims that nails and screws are being glued upright in a road to stop parents on the school run parking in a quiet cul-de-sac. | Police are investigating claims that nails and screws are being glued upright in a road to stop parents on the school run parking in a quiet cul-de-sac. |
| It is claimed that car drivers who use a street in Somerset to park while they drop their children at a primary school are being targeted. Police say they are treating it as criminal damage. | |
| Janet Smith, 62, said she believes that leaves are being used to disguise the pieces of metal. She drops her two grandchildren off at East Brent Church of England Academy in Highbridge, Somerset, three times a week. | |
| But she recently found a screw in her tyre after parking in a nearby close and believes nails are being fixed in an upright position to inflict maximum damage. | |
| Smith said: “Nails are being placed at the side of the road. I went there on Thursday morning and got back into my car and turned around in the close and I thought: ‘What’s that noise?’ | |
| “I looked around and couldn’t see anything, but when I got home and when the wheel was in a different position I could see it was a screw that was making the noise. Somebody is going to have a nasty accident. The parking isn’t dangerous and nobody is being blocked or anything like that. It is straightforward legal parking.” | |
| Smith said she had returned to pick up nails that had been placed in the road, fearing a driver could have a blowout. | |
| A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: “We can confirm that we received a report from a woman that she discovered a screw in the tyre of her vehicle when she returned home after doing the school run. She believes this was deliberate. | |
| “We are treating the incident as criminal damage and are keen to hear from anyone who may have information.” | “We are treating the incident as criminal damage and are keen to hear from anyone who may have information.” |
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