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To: Harriet Harman / Ian Wingfield
Save our kids from speeding cars
Introduce traffic calming on and around Kinsale Rd.
Why is this important?
I have been emailing for over a year about the large volume of traffic using Kinsale Road as a cut through and the extreme speed that they drive, without any response.
Not only is there a large volume of cars but it is also used by large vehicles, vans and delivery drivers who drive fast and aggressively. Not a week goes by that myself or a neighbour doesn't witness road rage on our road.
There is currently a new primary school, with capacity for in excess of 271 children, being built at the end of our road. We have heard no plans for traffic calming or how the increased traffic caused by the school will be managed.
On the 19th June a car was driving so fast down our road that he crashed and has written off 3 cars and damaged a fourth. He hit one parked car with such force that it moved the car parked behind it, with its hand brake on, over 10 metres backwards! If he had hit any of our residents rather than a car the result would have been fatal. My son was in our car the day before, at the same time of day, helping me to clean it. If we had been in the car when the accident happened only 24 hours later I dread to think what would have happened to us. Sadly this accident didn't come as a surprise to anyone living on our road.
This is a tightly knit community with over 20 young children living on the road.
I urge you to take action before something terrible happens. Our children have the right to cycle to school safely and to be free to cross the road to play at their friends houses, without fear of speeding traffic.
Not only is there a large volume of cars but it is also used by large vehicles, vans and delivery drivers who drive fast and aggressively. Not a week goes by that myself or a neighbour doesn't witness road rage on our road.
There is currently a new primary school, with capacity for in excess of 271 children, being built at the end of our road. We have heard no plans for traffic calming or how the increased traffic caused by the school will be managed.
On the 19th June a car was driving so fast down our road that he crashed and has written off 3 cars and damaged a fourth. He hit one parked car with such force that it moved the car parked behind it, with its hand brake on, over 10 metres backwards! If he had hit any of our residents rather than a car the result would have been fatal. My son was in our car the day before, at the same time of day, helping me to clean it. If we had been in the car when the accident happened only 24 hours later I dread to think what would have happened to us. Sadly this accident didn't come as a surprise to anyone living on our road.
This is a tightly knit community with over 20 young children living on the road.
I urge you to take action before something terrible happens. Our children have the right to cycle to school safely and to be free to cross the road to play at their friends houses, without fear of speeding traffic.
