Speeding drivers put lives at risk (From Barry And District News)

Speeding drivers put lives at risk

A CAMPAIGNING Barry councillor is calling for action before a child is killed at a notorious accident black spot.

Labour man Rob Curtis is appealing to locals to back him in his fight for traffic calming measures at Slade Road/Lundy Park junction.

He has already written to the Vale of Glamorgan Council asking for their help.

But he is now steeping up his efforts in a bid for prompt action. Gibbonsdown representative Rob Curtis, says the matter is getting too important to ignore.

He told the News: "Lundy Park and Slade Road have become dangerously busy with traffic using it as a short cut to Port Road, and using it to avoid the speed ramps on Dyfan Rise.

"This estate has a high number of young families and a lot of children play on the side of the road.

"I am deeply concerned about the speed of cars travelling along Lydstep Road and Slade Road, which are on hills, have blind corners and parked cars obscuring drivers' field of view. It is a formula for a nasty accident."

The area is a hotspot for children, as young pupils and their parents have to use those routes to get to Oakfield and Ysgol Gwaun y Nant.

Cllr Curtis added: "I have previously written to the Vale council with no success, but now I am urging them to declare this a 20mph zone.

"I will also be asking the police in the near future if they can monitor traffic speeds here.

"In the meantime, I'm pleading with drivers to slow down before it's too late.

"Remember, when you travel at 35mph you are twice as likely to kill someone as you are travelling at 30mph."

A Vale of Glamorgan Council spokesman said: "Using special road safety grant money from the Welsh Assembly the Council has actively promoted a number of 20mph speed zones near Vale schools and in areas with high accident records.

The calls from the councillor will be investigated by officers and any recommendations viewed in the context on other similar schemes proposed across the area."