Dear Sir,
I am a retired professional driver of all road vehicles that has been produced for any road in Europe and beyond. It is with regret that I have to agree with the recent notice in the Newton News regarding the unnecessary dangerous drivers on our towns roads, and on grass fields such as Simpasture Park.
We pay for our roads to be in good order, we pay for our police to keep us safe from these morons on quad bikes, actually wheelying them on Pease Way and Williamfield Way. We see it nearly every day.
WHERE ARE OUR POLICE?
We see it all on the TV and everywhere we go, the madmen and women who put our lives at risk, this part is for the carers who fly around in their cars up cul-de-sacs 100 yards long at horrendous speeds. It is 20 MPH on council estates, I make no apologies regarding these workers, it is the law to drive with caution in congested areas near children. I am one of these people who live in a cul-de-sac, with these “carers” flying about with “death traps” as most are not fit for the roads.
On several occasions I have made some drivers aware of the state of their tyres and inflation, they take no notice, which is a dangerous issue, where are our police who are supposed to keep us safe?
It is a rare occasion to see a copper now on the beat, Pease Way and Stephenson Way are speed tracks (especially Pease Way) I have witnessed several cars racing up Pease Way at speeds of 80mph, yes it is true, and I believe one of them has been spoken to by police and has had his car exhaust cans taken off, as they were like a shotgun going off several times, in one run.
Some years ago I complained about the speeding on Pease Way, there was a serious crash on this road due to a female driver being on her mobile phone traveling at around 70mph toward the mini roundabout, the junction at Pease Way and Emerson Way, a car was waiting to turn right into Cumby Road and this lady driver was too impatient to wait so she tried to overtake the turning driver and hit her full on, her car flipped and rolled several times hitting a tree outside of our house, which demolished the tree, then it hit the fire hydrant and bounced back onto another tree then flipping it into the garden next door to me, there were two small children in the garden playing on the swing and the car landed literally inches from the girls, this is true, the “nip-points” on Pease Way were due to myself and the police getting these installed, it was on the TV actually.
The above “nip points” mentioned was not my idea, I wanted the police to back me up to get speed humps to slow the traffic, but as we now know they were not, the reason I got from the Chief Inspector was (the bus drivers would complain) about the damage to their backs when driving over them. I did mention that I was a professional driver of all heavy goods, coach and buses, and that these buses etc, had Bostrom seats installed to alleviate this issue, he took no notice at all, so we are no better of, we still have the speeders, joy riders and no safety on the town regarding speeding. The police did come to me and did a speed check in yellow vests, very visible to all, including the speeders, they caught three in ten minutes, but still no speed restriction in place other than the 30mph sign.
I have lost faith in our police; I do feel for the cops on the front line but the problem is as usual, we are in the north, and out of sight, out of mind and not cared about by Mr Johnson. He has made this country a laughing stock, the NHS and COVID is a calamity waiting to happen, he may be intelligent but he has no common sense.
I feel sick when I see him on TV, they are clueless, let’s get back to Labour please. They will look after us, and no I am not into politics at all, I am just so upset about our country’s future, if there will be one with this Covid-19. This is now the time to get wearing your masks in shops, buses and all places you go where there are people; do it for the kids and the elderly, have some common sense. I have seen people coming into shops with no masks, telling the employees that they have asthma, my wife has asthma but she wears one in shops, it is a farce, if they have severe asthma you should have an exemption certificate from your doctor. But, there are so many fibbing, it is making the situation worse, so if you do cheat you are putting lives at risk and maybe your family too, think about it folks.
A Concerned Newtonian
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