A MUM is calling for action after her seven-year-old daughter was nearly run over at a bus stop.


Bernadette Foster says a car driver nearly knocked little Hayley over as he reversed out of a parking bay outside the new Tesco Express, on Wallisdown Road.


Mrs Foster, 37, fears a fatal accident and wants the bus stop moved.


Mrs Foster, a housewife from Weber’s Way, said: “Hayley wasn’t running around, she was just standing at the bus stop with me.


“I just sort of grabbed her out of the way.


“There’s an accident waiting to happen up there and it’s inevitable something fatal is going to happen, whether it’s two cars or a pedestrian or a bus involved.”


Mrs Foster, a housewife, says the stretch is badly congested and buses frequently cannot stop or pull out of the bus stop because of drivers coming in and out of Tesco.


She added: “I’ve got nothing against Tesco being there but the parking situation was not thought through properly.”


Traders in the area expressed concern about traffic issues before the shop opened in the former London Lounge.


A spokesman for Poole Council said that as planning permission was not required, it did not have the opportunity to move the bus stop with the operators.


The council raised concerns over parking issues and offered an alternative layout but Tesco did not take it up, she added.


A Tesco spokesman said: “The health and safety of our staff and customers is very important to us and we will continue to monitor the situation closely."