A HI-TECH speed system could be used to slow down drivers after a campaign to protect children at a dangerous school crossing.

Campaigners in Locks Heath are delighted the new variable speed limit could be applied to the section of Warsash Road outside local schools at peak times.

There have already been two accidents on the road in only four months, leaving a young boy with a broken foot and two children and their grandmother badly shaken.

But after parents took their message to Fareham borough councillors at a meeting last week, the future for the village's children looks safer.

Campaigner Amanda Strand, 38, who has two children at the schools, welcomed news of changes to the stretch of road, which alters from a 40mph limit to 30mph very close to the school.

She said: "We were told that at the moment they are going to move the 30 miles per hour sign back a bit so it is not right next to where the children cross.

"In another county at the moment they are also trying the 20 miles per hour timed speed limit and if that goes well the council will consider putting it in Locks Heath."

Councillor Ruth Godrich, who presented a petition signed by more than 300 parents to the council, said several options were being looked into.

She said: "The members were all keen that we should look into all these possibilities, but we do not know how practical they are for the road."

She warned that as Warsash Road is a main distributor road it may not be possible to lower the limit at times to coincide with school starting and finishing times.

But no decision will be made until the results of the pilot scheme are made available.