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Just found this in my local paper.

Thsi realy pisses me off. My house backs on to the same road. You can hear the odd bike go by on a good day but nothing too bad and to call it a race track is rediculous. I have lived there for 23 years and it has never changed. My issue is that speed is blaimed for the 20 accidents over the past 6 years but in reality this is mainly attributed to a bad junction (now fixed) and mud on the road which is a BIG problem in the area. This sort of reporting makes my blood boil....

[url=http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132407&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132390&contentPK=18721817&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch]RACE TRACK ROAD IS A 'NIGHTMARE'
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Speed camera policy Kills

Not according to Google.
The exact quote yields no hits, neither does "speed test" AND A5199.
In fact I can't find any such page. Another Al Gore in the making methinks.

What's the speed limit on that road?

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It's seems to be an endemic problem in local newspapers to be obsessed with "speeding drivers"; my local rag and it's associated web site is no different.

Not so long back, there was a story published regarding "speeding drivers" (natch) entering a village near Shrewsbury. Reading the article on the web site, there was a thumbnail image attached to the story showing an Austin Healey 3000 and a Triumph TR5 driving along a road. I hovered the screen pointer over the image, to find that "Boy-Racers.jpg" appeared

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Simon

Its NSL all the way from the city. His village is about a half a mile from the main road.

Good point about the google search. Maybe someone could write to the paper. I already have done!

I was at the scene of a motorcycle accident a couple of years ago. He skidded on a mud patch left by a tractor on the apex of a turn. This must have been one of his "speeders"

As I was saying about the junction improvements, not everyone is happy!
http://kilby.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/currentissues.html



Yeeks Its a trunk road. I feel a conspiracy is unfolding.

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Speed camera policy Kills