David Williams says there is no answer to speeding in Tillington (From Hereford Times)
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David Williams says there is no answer to speeding in Tillington
11:09am Thursday 12th July 2012 in Letters
I WRITE regarding the report (Hereford Times, June 21) that a man car was caught doing 36mph in a 30mph area.
I have been complaining to the police about the speed of vehicle travelling through Tillington for the last couple of years. Last October I made a further complaint of speeding vehicles between the Bell Public House and the Junior School, Burghill, a short distance of 500 metres.
The police tasked a community support officer to deal with the problem. He held a speed check a mile away from the problem I reported (on health and safety grounds) but still within the 30mph area.
He was stopping vehicles travelling at over 50mph and gave then a ticking off – the CSO does not have police powers to issue fixed penalty tickets for speeding.
Now the parish council has to consider hiring a speed indication device (SID) at the parish’s expense to further investigate the problem.
Once they have the evidence the speeding partnership may consider what to do.
Our local councillor has been trying to set up a speed watch scheme whereby local residents are trained to carry out speed checks but she is hitting a brick wall with the local police.
Other police forces carry out this initiative without problem and with great success.
DAVID WILLIAMS, Hollycroft,Tillington.
Comments(3)
RogerLFC
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8:43pm Thu 12 Jul 12
retrexs
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2:03am Wed 18 Jul 12
I would also like to add that the parish councillor has spent too much time campaigning for unnecessary speed limits when really they should be campaigning for Hi Grip road surface on a certain few corners and re-engineering the road where a fatal accident occurred not so long ago (not speed related!!!)
AnonDan says...
12:45pm Thu 12 Jul 12
What needs to be done is more educating road users. All young drivers get stick by old people on the road, because they think they know better and never had an accident for x number of year... Difference is these "older" people tend to drive everywhere at 25mph and can't seem to be able to to navigate around roundabouts and junctions. Do you know how annoying this is to be stuck behind someone like this? After about 10 minutes your always looking for somewhere to overtake which can become dangerous!
Other thing are runners and cyclists. I believe it should be the law for them to wear those bright green jackets, they are great! It means I can see a cyclist and act accordingly with plenty of time to spare!
These are the things that need to be done with Burghill / Tillington. Not speed camera's. That will not make things any better at all.