A PETITION calling for traffic calming measures to be brought in on a ‘lethal’ road in Shafton will be started in the coming weeks, the Chronicle can reveal.
The problems on Sandy Bridge Lane were discussed at Monday’s Shafton Parish Council meeting after Barnsley Council initially ruled out installing better signage and electronic speed indicators due to it not being considered dangerous enough.
The local authority, which receives funding from the South Yorkshire Local Transport Plan to carry out improvements at locations where there is a history of collisions resulting in personal injury, said the lane was not on its hotspot list despite a series of crashes since the turn of the year.
“Something’s very wrong if a road has to have deaths or serious injuries to quality for action to be taken,” parish councillor Peter Makinson said. “It’s lucky nobody has been killed on there recently as it’s had several serious crashes.”
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