Apparently 148 drivers were copped speeding on this 50 mph dual carriageeway on Thursday. It used to be a 50 mph speed limit and if I remember rightly - its history of deaths had more to do with people jumping from a bridge at one point in the 80s. I was a student in Manchester at the time - and was involved in treating one such failed
suicide from this road. He survived - but was crippled as I recall.
Anyway it seems people speed up in-between the 3 or 4 Gatsos on this road and the 148 were clocked at 75 mph and one at 109 mph within two hours of hand held cams on Thusrday night.
It seems that the young drivers of Bolton congregate in the car parks of Bow Street and Bank Street every Thursday (per Bolton local paper tonight) They caught 109 people the month prior to this on the same road. Apparently there has been a spate of bad driving in Bolton (but no deaths or accidents recorded as a result of this - and it seems the youngsters are not treating St Peter's Way "as a race track" per Insp Chris Burrows of Boltons's Traffic Police Unit, who is quoted as saying "We have not had one fatality in Bolton this year and we want this to continue. This is a ongoing operation and we will continue until motorists cease speeding on St Peter's Way!" He adds that the drivers slow and brake hard for the scams and then accelerate and says that this is very dangerous behaviour.
Indeed.
Might I make a suggestion to Bolton's finest then. Remove the scams to prevent the hard braking and make sure you are seen patrolling this road regularly instead - and particularly at the times you state are most risky? I am sure quiet a word to set these people straight instead of allowing them to continue driving so dangerously for a fortnight would be of more long term benefit than hiding on the bridge at Raikes Lane and in the field behind the golf course
as a pal of mine tells me was the case
But to all out there, who may use this road - be careful on St Peter's Way!
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