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Angry mum-of-three shames #stupidparking motorists outside school gates by posting pics of their cars on Twitter

Alison Berry tweets pictures of fellow parents who leave their cars on kerbs and double yellow lines

One of the pictures posted online by Alison Berry in her war against anti-social parkers. (SWNS/Alison Berry/Twitter)

Angry mum Alison Berry has become so fed up of poor parking outside the school gates she has started picturing and shaming drivers on Twitter.

The furious mother-of-three tweets pictures of fellow parents who leave their cars on kerbs and double yellow lines.

She posts the images using the hashtag #stupidparking in a bid to shame the parents into parking sensibly.

Alison's fears a child could be run over because a driver's view will be impaired by badly-parked motors.

She said: 'It is enormously frustrating. It is always the same piece of road.

'There's an enormous number of children and parents walking around. It is turning what is a hazard into an accident waiting to happen.'

Alison lives with husband Steve, a freelance business consultant, and their three children, an eight-year-old boy and two girls, 11 and 13.

The 43-year-old added: 'We have had connection with the school for about ten years.


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'It is one of those things that as a local resident, you expect streets to be busy during the mornings and afternoons when you live near a school.

'But for the same people to regularly park in such an obstructive, and frankly dangerous, way, is reprehensible.

'I hope my Twitter campaign makes the council stand up and take notice of the situation before an avoidable tragedy occurs.

'People are so blinkered - why don't they just park safely, 100 metres away?'

Alison has already successfully lobbied Runnymede Borough Council to paint double yellow lines at a junction near Englefield Green Infant School in Egham, Surrey.

But the paint on the new markings was barely dry when motorists began ignoring them and parking on a dangerous blind corner.

Council parking services manager Mervyn Robins said: 'For this parking problem to change, parents need to take responsibility for their actions to ensure the safety of all the children at the school, not just their own.'