Let's hope death was not in vain
LETTER: My neighbours and I stood up to look through our windows as we saw the blue flashing lights reflecting on the walls in our living rooms.
It was Sunday evening and we realised that these lights were from a police vehicle that was in position, closing the A41 from Tern Hill towards Newport to the traffic.
For us, the residents of the A41 at Tern Hill, it is a common sight.
It normally signals to us that a family somewhere will have lost a loved one or at the very least have a few months of hospital visiting and face a future filled with anguish.
A police officer outside our homes confirmed the road was closed due to another fatal motoring accident.
Listening to the news the following morning, we learned it was a local motorcyclist, killed riding his machine just minutes from his home.
His motorcycling fraternity paid their respects to him one week to the day he lost his life. They rode in convoy from the Stormy Petrel public house to the tragic scene.
We, the residents, hear and see vehicles racing at high speeds along this stretch of the A41. We hope the motorcyclists, who are the most vulnerable, will in future when riding along the A41 realise this road is very dangerous and travel along it within the speed limit.
The Stormy Petrel is a venue where motorcyclists meet one evening a week during the summer. The A41 took the lives of two motorcyclists late last year as they were leaving this venue.
Let's just hope that the life of yet another person is not in vain.
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