“We have a dilemma in rural areas because we don’t want to urbanise them by having to put multiple signs and flashing lights up as it generates complaints.”Ĭouncillor Bartholomew said possible solutions could be repositioning the “Slow” signs, installing rumble strips and changing the colour of the tarmac to make it more distinctive. “I am going to discuss with the engineers what we can do. “It is certainly driver error but that is not a satisfactory answer if the accidents keep happening and we need to increase the warning levels for drivers. “The police only put accidents involving serious injuries into their database so they go unrecorded, which is regrettable, but I am determined to do something about it. “In recent years there have not been any serious injuries that I am aware of but that means the accident records don’t count. We have to do something to stop this from happening again. We can’t just say we have ticked all the boxes. “If it carries on like this, it is only a matter of time before something more serious happens. There now seems to be a crash here every two months and it is not a situation that I want to continue. “The signage is compliant but for unexplained reasons accidents keep happening there. “In the last year, there have been three crashes there and I have asked them to go back again and have another look. “I got the county council highways engineers and road safety people to look at it in detail and we had the signage cleaned and the lines refreshed and the visibility angles checked and it passed all the tests. “There were some improvements made and it calmed down but in recent years there have been more accidents again. David Bartholomew said: “There is an ongoing history of accidents here and some years back there was a fatality.
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