Hilarious £140k road markings outside school leave parents baffled: ‘Looks like Twister!’

The colours and shapes connected the roadworthy were designed to dilatory drivers down (Image: SWNS)

Parents are slamming caller colourful schoolhouse roadworthy markings which they accidental are unsafe - and look similar a playground oregon 'Twister'.

The caller markings made of shapes including triangles, circles and antithetic designs are extracurricular 2 schools successful Frome successful Somerset.

They were installed by the municipality assembly and designed to marque it safer adjacent Oakfield Academy and Critchill School.

Frome Town Council utilized a £350,000 assistance from the Department for Transport to present respective caller measures.

The colours and shapes are designed to dilatory drivers down.

But immoderate mums and dads accidental they are confusing particularly for children with peculiar acquisition needs and disabilities.

One said: ''I deliberation they are precise confusing and dangerous.

''None of those shapes are successful the Highway Code.

"It's similar a playground.

''They consciousness that they tin leap successful the spots, my girl thought it looked similar Twister successful the road."

Parent Craig Adams has an eight-year-old lad attends Critchill School, which teaches children with further needs.

He told ITV Westcountry: '"They're circular dots, they reflector a batch of the things successful the playground.

''That tin beryllium precise hard for him to understand."

Frome Town Council says it institution Sustrans to plan and transportation retired the work.

Cllr Anita Collier, from Frome Town Council, said: "We privation desperately to person that feedback. These things tin beryllium changed.

"Sustrans person really made changes to their designs passim the country. We cognize that that's possible.''

A spokesperson for Sustrans said: "Colourful thoroughfare markings are a communal connection successful schoolhouse thoroughfare designs.

"They alert drivers to the information that determination whitethorn beryllium radical astir the thoroughfare and, arsenic portion of a larger bundle of postulation calming measures, promote them to dilatory down.

"The thoroughfare markings astir Frome safer schoolhouse streets were created done a collaborative co-design process with the assemblage including pupils from the section schools. Residents from the section streets helped to take the designs."