EIGHT-year-old Elliot Firth has put signs up urging drivers to slow down to stop squashing frogs crossing Hill Hayes Lane at Hullavington.

Mum Laura Firth said Elliot, who attends Hullavington School, loves animals and did not like seeing the flattened creatures on the road on his way to school in the morning.

So Elliot wrote big colourful signs reading "Frogs Crossing Slow" using pencil and pens to make drivers aware of the danger.

Mrs Firth, who lives at the end of the lane said: "It is at night time when they are hopping across the road that drivers run over them.

"Elliot sees them when he is coming home from school and he was out with a stick, trying to pick the frogs up to save them last week.

"We counted 25 dead frogs on the road and he wanted to do something about it. So he made the posters by himself after school."

The frogs' plight is made even more dangerous because their crossing point is round a bend at the start of a 60mph zone out of the village.

Mrs Firth said she thought the frogs were trying to get to a spawning pool in a field across the road.

"I think the frogs will be in danger for the next two or three weeks. Cars seem to be slowing down although I'm not sure how many frogs he has saved.

"I think it is great that he is trying to do something. It may save one or two frogs," she said.