There has been no letup in speeding through the village of Stanford Rivers during the festive period, when we would all expect the volume of traffic to be much reduced, especially during the current pandemic and the holiday period meaning fewer people using our roads, the A113 included.
Our figures show that the bot is still triggering hourly, suggesting that even with reduced traffic flows and adverse weather (will it ever stop raining?), speeding is still a massive problem on the A113, specifically through the 30mph section through the village, where you would hope it to be much less frequent during these quieter times.
Hover over the points on the graph for more information, or view the whole sorry mess here. Either way you’ll see we have one entry of 59 mph, or 195% of the 30mph limit at around 1600 on Christmas Day. We also have a generous sprinkling of above 50mph entries. The gift of danger.
As you can see from the chart above, the bot has no problem in logging speeding drivers at 150% and more of the speed limit on the usual hourly basis. It seems that there is always road danger through Stanford Rivers and worse still, the dangers are in the 30mph section where you have the chance of kids or pets straying into the road.
Some might say that those people shouldn’t be in the road, or should be more careful (or in the case of pets, their owners should be more careful with them). This is a) a very entitled and selfish view to take and, b), against the advice in The Highway Code:
try to anticipate what pedestrians and cyclists might do. If pedestrians, particularly children, are looking the other way, they may step out into the road without seeing you.
An excerpt from rule 146, The Highway Code.
So, drivers through Stanford Rivers clearly aren’t being considerate of other road users, especially the more vulnerable users, like pedestrians.
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