PARENTS dropping their kids at school are terrified after locals livid at cars parking outside their homes started blocking them in.
Homeowners have armed themselves with deckchairs and scream at "selfish" mums and dads – but parents swear they don't have a choice.
Antics at drop-off and pick-up spark traffic chaos and quarrels regularly explode on the new housing estate.
Elizabeth Rees, who has a three-year-old son at the school, told the Sun Online how her "whole day was ruined" after being torn into.
She slammed: “This woman came out of her house with her phone in her hand, yelling at me and telling me she’d taken photographs of me and my car.
“She was fuming. I told her I was sorry but she kept going at me."
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Tensions have soared ever since Brynmenyn Primary School in Tondu, near Bridgend in South Wales, banned cars at the school gates.
Parents were smacked with the restrictions amid chaos brought on by the dead end road the school is built on.
Parents now say ditching their motors in residential street Lon Derw – or parking dangerously on bends – is the only option if they want to safely get their nippers to school.
"I can’t walk my son to school because he’s so young and we live almost two miles away", Elizabeth insisted while claiming she didn't want to walk her son in when it's "lashing down".
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Earlier this year, at-their-wits-end residents built a barricade at the end of their street to stop parents using their road as a car park.
Locals say that since then, the dispute has become entrenched and shows no sign of abating.
They blame Bridgend council who refuses to allow parents to use a loop road built for the purpose of allowing them to safely drop off and collect their kids.
Retired Coca Cola supervisor Derrick Bowden, 76, was raging as he collected two of his grandchildren, aged three and seven.
He had no option but to park outside homes on Lon Derw while he and wife Margaret, 73, trudged to the school gates to meet their grandchildren.
'WARZONE'
He fizzled: “It’s become a hostile environment. It’s like a war zone some afternoons. This situation suits no one and the sooner the council get a grip, the better."
The grandad said parents should be allowed to use neighbouring secondary school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen, whose carpark empties ten minutes before the primary school day ends.
Local campaigner and resident Mal Harris, 51, has spent more than a year demanding the council reopen the loop road running around the primary school.
Mal, who lives on the 2019 housing development, said road has plenty of bays so parents can safely drop their kids and exit in a one way system.
But Mal, who said the council have listened to his demands, feared: "What is certain is that things can’t carry on like they are because a child is going to get killed in this street."
His neighbour, Nikita Jones, 24, who has a seven-year-old girl at the school agrees: “Cars flying through the estate at speed and cars parked everywhere twice a day is just an accident waiting to happen.
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"My daughter nearly got hit by a car doing 30mph this week. It cannot be allowed to continue as it is.”
The Sun Online have approached Bridgend Council for comment.
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