Calls for A49 at Woofferton to be made safer after crashes

Vivienne Parry, Shropshire councillor for Ludlow South, Herefordshire councillor John Stone and Sebastian Bowen, Herefordshire Council's chairman, said that they will not stand by and watch as nothing is done about the junction of the A49 and A456 near the Salwey Arms at Woofferton.

There have been numerous crashes over the years at the junction, including fatalities, and the councillors say locals feel that it has only been luck that more people have not died and been seriously injured.

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But highways chiefs have investigated options including traffic lights and islands, the trio said.

They say that it would be necessary to buy extra land and that the cost of a scheme would be £12 million.

At that cost, chiefs say it makes it impossible to justify the work to the junction on the A49 between Leominster and Ludlow.

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