SPEEDING is a top priority in Kingsmead after a near miss in a 20mph zone.

The parish council is determined to crackdown on 'arrogant' motorists breaking the speed limit following the incident in Monarch Drive.

Cllr Chris Reed said: "I nearly gave myself a heart attack when I saw a mother and her two children nearly mown down and the arrogance of the twerp driving who just stuck two fingers up at the people who were screaming at him."

The 20mph zone was introduced to Monarch Drive in June last year after years of campaigning by residents and councillors who feared that the residential road was being used as a rat run to avoid traffic on the spine road.

Now that Kingsmead is without a dedicated PCSO, as PCSO Robbie Stott has been moved to a Northwich town centre beat, parish councillors are worried the new speed limit will not be enforced.

"When we got approval for it part of that process is that the police agree to enforce it," said Cllr Reed.

"They haven't done it, they've failed to enforce the law and now we haven't got a PCSO.

"We just need to go to the police and crime commissioner and say 'I'm sorry, this is what's happening, we are having so many near fatalities'.

"How the hell this woman pulled her child back from the car I don't know.

"I thought she was a goner, I really did."

Jo O'Donoghue, parish council clerk, said there had been technical difficulties surrounding enforcement.

"The police and local authorities haven't been able to enforce 20mph zones since they were introduced because the equipment can't detect people travelling between 20mph and 30mph.

"But now cameras have been approved by the Home Office that can."

Cllr Helen Weltman suggested that the council should buy its own equipment and members said they would be willing to be part of a community speed check scheme.

Councillors agreed to get in touch with John Dwyer, police and crime commissioner for Cheshire, to see what can be done.