A woman living in an accident blackspot road is threatening to put up her own signs to warn motorists against speeding.
She has lived in Swan Street, Sible Hedingham, for six years and has designed posters to display at each end of the street saying 'drive as fast as you like through our village, we need dead bodies before we can have 30mph in force.'
tinyurl.com/ndb8ywe - www.halsteadgazette.co.uk
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"Highways responded to Mrs Ogilvie, saying there would need to have been four police-reported incidents in a 50m radius and an identifiable trend of accidents in the last five years to enforce calming measures and the road does not qualify."
I'm surprised at this as a process. What can happen is that random variations in accident frequency result in cameras or whatever at a particular location, and then amazingly the accident rate afterwards trends back towards the long term average, and the camera gets the credit.
On the other hand, I do think there are other reasons than the likelihood of an accident to consider speed limits. Where there front doors separated from the road only by a yard of footway, I'd object to anything over 30.
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>> Where there front doors separated from the road only by a yard of footway, I'd object to anything over 30.
Or even 20... but you could lobby for a waddling-pedestrian-proof barrier to be erected along the edge of the pavement. Then 40 or even 50 might be all right.
People walking close to fast roads have been known to be sucked into the road by the vacuum vortex behind a large fast vehicle with a boxy shape, and run over by the vehicle behind. After realising that, partly from experience as a pedestrian, I became cautious when passing pedestrians or cyclists and only did so at any speed if I could use the opposite side of the road. It's habitual now... but you can always come up with one suddenly when bowling along in the twisty lanes near here. Better safe than sorry is boring old second nature to me now. I am lucky to have got away with the many years when it wasn't. So far so good anyway. Something very silly can happen to anyone any time on the road.
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>> People walking close to fast roads have been known to be sucked into the road
>> by the vacuum vortex behind a large fast vehicle with a boxy shape, and run
>> over by the vehicle behind.
That's impossible. Obviously the vehicle behind is keeping at least a two-second interval so can easily stop in all road conditions within the distance the driver can see to be clear.
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>> People walking close to fast roads have been known to be sucked into the road
>> by the vacuum vortex behind a large fast vehicle with a boxy shape, and run
>> over by the vehicle behind.
I walk daily about 3 miles along unlit country roads with no pavements. I always step into the hedge/gutter/drain/bog beside the road to avoid that.. Milk tankers travelling at 30mph create a large vacuum. BIG tarctors the same.
And muppets in X5s who travel at 50mph (in a 30 limit) do the same..:-(
Last edited by: madf on Wed 3 Dec 14 at 17:04
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>>Milk tankers travelling at 30mph <<
Is that all? They scare me around the lanes of South Wales, even if my lorry is the same size as theirs.
They know the roads and go like sh8t off a stick;)
Pat
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Every farm lane with its own little platform for milk churns beside the main road, at the right height for the lorry driver to manhandle them onto the wagon? I wonder if it's still like that. It was in Pembrokeshire when I were a nipper...
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>> Every farm lane with its own little platform for milk churns beside the main road,
>> at the right height for the lorry driver to manhandle them onto the wagon? I
>> wonder if it's still like that. It was in Pembrokeshire when I were a nipper...
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The milk stands, as they're called, are often still there, but these days cunningly disguised inside hedges waiting their revenge on an unwary feed lorry's front bumper.
Ask me how I know. >:(
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>> Ask me how I know. >:(
Heh heh... a lot of foxgloves in those parts I seem to remember, source of natural digitalis to start or stop your heart...
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>> Heh heh... a lot of foxgloves in those parts I seem to remember, source of
>> natural digitalis to start or stop your heart...
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Those lanes are delightful in the early spring, with clumps of snowdrops and then primroses dotting the banks.
To return to the subject; I have a little sympathy for the lady, but I do note that she's only lived there for six years. Unless something drastic has happened since she moved there to route considerably more traffic past her door, I'd doubt if it's much different to when she moved in. With that in mind, why the hell did she move there in the first place?
One has to suspect that she's the complaining type; I've come across them before in villages, they move in, moan about everything, hijack the parish council and make a general nuisance of themselves for a few years, then usually move on.
I think they're commonly known as "townies".
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We townies call them 'idiots'.
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