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Road safety scheme to stop accident ever 6 weeks is a vistory for common sense - Burstow
December 10, 2002 12:15 PM
Local MP Paul Burstow today claimed a 'victory for common sense' as it was revealed that following pressure from the MP, funding has now been found to improve the road crossing outside the McDonalds on London Road following a spate of pedestrian accidents.
The news follows complaints brought to Mr Burstow's attention by local residents. Letters from Transport for London revealed that pedestrians had been injured on average once every 6 weeks for the last 3 years. Between August 1999 and 2002, 20 people were injured in accidents affecting the area between Lavender Avenue and Lloyd Road.
Celebrating the success, Paul Burstow MP said:
"This is a victory for common sense. When so many people in so little time have been injured by vehicles it is time that measures are put in place to protect people. Without such measures then sooner or later one of the incidents would have turned fatal."
"A fast food restaurant in the vicinity of these accidents means that it would probably have been a child or young person who would have been killed. The new safety improvement scheme needs to be adopted as quickly as possible so that members of the public can be protected.
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