Picking up a few bits from the responses:
* Yes, ‘we’ are the school
* Wasn’t planning on getting an angry mob with torches to pay him a visit, but more to check I wasn’t missing anything obvious before getting back to him
* New school site; relocated from other side of the village and only opened in January
* Access, parking, road signs & markings all been very recently scrutinised and agreed with highways authority, planning dept and plod. carriageway reduction & ‘give way’ features to allow for a segregated cycle lane has obviously proven popular with the local driving gods
* Yes he hit the child, no he didn’t called plod
* Child thankfully not injured
* No witnesses to corroborate his tale, but child came from car parked on ‘school side’ of the road and was getting wellies out of the boot, so not (or shouldn’t have been) crossing the road as he says
* EDIT – we also have a secure, covered cycle or scooter space for every child and encourage all to use them or walk as part of a shiny new travel plan