“Route Aware” Campaign –
Villagers
cannot have failed to notice the mass of warning signs along the
Very sadly,
three local people were killed during an 8 week period last summer within the
boundaries of our Ampney parishes. The
figure for the Cotswolds for this year is even more horrific – 14 people have
died – that’s double last year’s number.
We have double
white lines, an excess of signs, a 50mph limit, yet every day a few people race
into the Ampney bends at 60mph plus.
What really saddens me is that these are local people – I recognise many
of the drivers and know them to be good honest and industrious folk whom none
of us would want to lose. They nearly all have families who would be devastated
if they died in such a pointless way.
How can we get the message across ?
The police
have pointed out that it is not the road that is dangerous, but the way in
which people use it. If you have any
thoughts on this subject, please put them to Garry Handley, our contact for the
Cotswold
Road Safety Liaison Group at Shire Hall, Gloucester (telephone: 01
452-425 000), who are spearheading this campaign.