Road safety plea rejected
Saturday 24th January 2009, 10:58AM GMT.
The Government has rejected a call for urgent safety measures on a stretch of road near Newport where two pensioners were killed.
Official accident figures show the A41 between Chetwynd Church and Chetwynd Firs is no more dangerous than any other road.
And investigations have revealed that the road layout or condition was not the main factor in two recent smashes there.
The pronouncement from the Government Office for the West Midlands is a bitter blow for residents of Lane End Barns. They wrote to Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon on November 30 about the dangers of the road.
Their call followed a crash on the A41 which claimed the lives of Ronald Twemlow, 86, and his 81-year-old wife Freda, of Tern Hill, when their car collided with two lorries on November 13.
The residents asked for the speed limit to be reduced from 60mph to 40mph.
But Mark Hudson, for the Government Office for the West Midlands on behalf of Mr Hoon, says that the safety of the A41 at Chetwynd is the responsibility of Telford & Wrekin Council, the highway authority.
“There have not been any clearly identifiable common factors that would indicate the need for measures to encourage speed reduction.”
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Hear, hear, Brian(2). Anyway, all those Muller lorries have the effect of keeping speeds below 40 mph – it’s not speed, it’s frustration with slow vehicles and, it has to be said, timid drivers who won’t take the opportunities to overtake.
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Hopefully, now, these six people will mind their own business and concentrate on something more important than 7 casualties in 5 years (2 of which, at least, aren’t down to speed anyway)and let the thousands of motorists who use this road , safely, on a daily basis, get on with running their lives without interference from so called “safety experts” who know nothing!
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