Driving still bad on death crash road
Tuesday 11th May 2010, 1:12PM BST.
The standard of driving is “as bad as ever” on the A5 Chirk bypass despite a double fatal crash less than two months ago, road campaigners claimed today.
And they claim their safety campaign was being hindered because of the power sharing talks over who should run the country.
They have set up a Facebook campaign and also launched a Downing Street petition calling for improvements to the notorious road.
But Sally Poppitt said all Downing Street petitions had been frozen until a new government was in place.
She said: “It is frustrating because we want to get lots of people to sign the petition.
“Nobody can sign it until the government is sorted out but we want to keep up the pressure because despite the fatal crash the situation is as bad as ever. People have gone back to driving the way they did before the crash.
“It is a worry because you just think more tragedies will happen before something is done.”
Mrs Poppitt, a mother of two from Chirk, launched a campaign following the fatal crash on March 22.
The tragedy happened between the Halton and Gledrid roundabouts when a white Mercedes estate car was in collision with a cattle truck and an empty chemical tanker.
The accident claimed the lives of Stuart Davies, 45, an Airbus worker from Mold, who was driving the car, and 43-year-old William Thomas Hefion Jones, from Cardigan, who was at the wheel of the cattle truck. The driver of the tanker escaped with a minor head injury. Cattle from the truck also died.
Hundreds of people have signed up to Mrs Poppitt’s Facebook campaign called Roar — Redesign Our A5 Road.
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