We Need Speed Bumps at Temple Crescent Now

By CharlotteC92 | Saturday, March 13, 2010, 00:02

Today was a sad day for me and my family, for the THIRD time in five years one of our pets has been mowed down by a driver on Temple Crescent in Tiverton.

My cat and her mum 2005-2010. Was run over just short of her 5th birthday.

I do not think three in such a short space of time is a coincidence. Take a look at other parts of Wilcombe, and of course around the town in places such as Cowleymoor where they have speed humps in the built up areas.

Well here on Temple Crescent we have children playing near the roads in summer, two schools full of children in Wilcombe and Tidcombe, and also parks and playgrounds around, so why no speed humps for roads like ours.

Mackenzie Way has speed humps, so does Halsbury Road so why not ours? Before too long a driver will be driving along it at a silly speed and it won’t just be a lovable pet cat staring into the headlights of an oncoming vehicle.

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I sympathise, but I really can't see that speed humps are a solution, idiots still drive too fast anyway, and the speed humps damage all of our cars. The solution is proper enforcement and a 20mph limit in Wilcombe. I am amazed though that anyone can speed on Temple Crescent, if you do more than 20mph around there, you must not like your car very much. I suspect the death of pets has more to do with lack of sight both for the motorist and the pets, it is a blind bend with cars parked on both sides in places.

By Trotboy2k at 22:39 on 17/04/10
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