Just weeks after the official protest to set up a children’s crosswalk, the fence shielding the children walking to school from the busy South West Highway was flattened by a car.

The wire fence has been consistently replaced and is all that separates the footpath and the highway that often sees vehicles travelling up to 100km/h.

North Dandalup Primary School student Ian Cooper and his father Kevin look upon the incident as a lucky miss for any student that walks along the path every day.

A few weeks ago a protest was launched to raise the issue with relevant authorities.

“The shire was informed on Monday (the day the crash was reported),” Mr Cooper said.

In an area where the speed limit isn’t altered for the area of road the school sits on and there are no schools signs, Mr Cooper has been doing what he can to assist the children in getting to school safely.

This has included stopping his car to let children pass in the busy flow of traffic and painting and erecting his own school signs to let drivers know there is a school nearby.

Recently these signs have been taken down because they were not shire approved but there have been no official signs put up to replace them.

“I’m nearing the point where I’m prepared to park my car across the road for an hour so children can get across safely,” Mr Cooper said.

“I don’t want to get arrested but it will take something drastic before anyone will listen.

“We’re going to have dead kids soon.”

He said one of his four children could have been killed when a car crashed into the fence last week.

Mr Cooper said he couldn’t see why a crossing had been put at the bottom of the list of priorities, along with the moving of the footpath to a greater distance from the road.

“I can’t see the logic because it’s obviously a dangerous road.”

The fence has since been fixed.