IanH wrote:
I’m surprised there have been no more serious collisions as a result of this problem, but I have personally attended two serious RTCs there in the last 12 years, caused by precisely this problem.
For me the convenience of being able to overtake at this location is not balanced by the danger posed. There is no great benefit to be gained by the overtake of one or perhaps two vehicles on this 300 metres of dual lane, and it also encourages ludicrous overtakes of queues of four or five cars which can conflict with northbound traffic about to enter the dip.
JJ wrote:
I would suggest that the way forwrd would be to insist that road engineering is carried out. But the number of seriously injured collisions at that spot would not put it high on the priority list.
And there you have it in a nutshell - road safety policy consisting of fixing problems AFTER fatalities or injuries, instead of PREVENTION.
I'm not getting at JJ, or the CSCP - this is a Government led, County Council problem.
If there were any justice, the half million pounds the CSCP have just raised in Cumbria, should be spent on increasing road safety in the county!
Ian has confirmed my thoughts, and many many others, that the road layout on Bannerigg is flawed, and badly designed.
The council employ experts to do this, and in this instance they have let us down - as at Bassenthwaite A66, and some might be bold enough to compare this lack of forethought with the execution of the speed camera policy!