Call for speeding crackdown on 'dangerous road'

Residents living along a "nightmare" stretch of road in Lincolnshire are calling for measures to be taken to cut motorists' speeds.

Campaigners want the limit on Horncastle Road, Wragby, to be cut from 40mph (about 65km/h) to 30mph (about 50km/h) because their houses "shake" due to passing traffic.

David Spendlove, who lives on the road, said: "We have two young children who love to ride their bikes, but we cannot let them along this road as it's just too dangerous with the amount of speeding traffic."

Lincolnshire County Council said it had received a request for a review of speed limits along Horncastle Road, which will be reviewed.

Rhonda Ledger, who has lived on Horncastle Road for three years, said she had heard motorists "racing past at well over 50mph".

"It shakes the house. I sit in the front room listening for it, waiting to hear a bang.

"In the three years I've been here, it's gotten worse and worse. Someone's going to have a bad accident."

She described the recent bank holiday as "horrendous" as the "fast-traffic was non-stop".

Suggestions to slow down the traffic have included speed bumps, mini-roundabouts or chicanes, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Ben Wilson, who lives in the town, said an overtaking car had nearly crashed into him as he turned into his drive, and "houses shake when lorries speed past".

Ruchira Yarsley, the Wragby member on East Lindsey District Council, said: "It's not just boy racers. It's everybody – mums, people on the way to work, construction workers, everybody who gets behind a wheel.

"If there was a speed camera on this road, it would make a fortune."

The county council said that under criteria set by the Department for Transport, to enforce speed limits with cameras there needed to be "evidence of a high degree of non-compliance with the speed limits".

The authority added that cameras should be used only in areas "where collisions indicate there is a need to slow traffic speeds to reduce speed-related casualties".

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