Community Speed Watch: July Report
Police now supporting the need to reduce speeding in Brailes
Police have been attending the village recently as a result of the continuing number of speeders recorded by the static cameras.
You may have also noticed the twin pairs of wires across the road just past the George recently, which are also monitoring vehicle speed there.
It is clear to anyone who cares about road safety and the consequential risks caused by unnecessary speeding, that more permanent traffic calming measures need to be put in place.
Vulnerable road users are at a particular risk from higher traffic speeds. The risk of a pedestrian being killed if hit by a car increases from 10% at 30mph to 70% at 50 mph.
Given all the evidential data that has been collected for nearly 3 years now, improving Road Safety is a key priority. The area around the Primary School is especially critical and plans have been drawn up to help make this safer for children and parents to be able to walk to school and cross the road.
Details of our proposed School Safety Zone along with other permanent traffic calming measures for the village where excess speeding is a serious problem will be shared at the public meeting planned to be held on July 13th in the Village Hall when your input will be most welcome.
In the meantime the Community Speed Watch team continue to try to ‘educate’ speeding drivers to slow down so if you can spare an hour or so a month and would like to join the CSW team please let us know by email to: br****************@*****ok.com.