‘Danger road could kill’
Monday 27th September 2010, 2:30PM BST.
Bill Howard, one of the residents behind the petition about the accident blackspot, with a piece of a car’s wing mirror he found near his Rue Cauchez home. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1031024)
SOMEONE is going to be killed at an accident blackspot that has seen six crashes in three days, warn residents.
Now a petition has been sent to deputies, the douzaine, the police and States departments about safety in Rue Cauchez in St Martin’s.
Signed by people living in the area and by other road users, it claims that there is usually at least one incident there every month. And it also reveals that during one three-day period earlier in the summer, a record six accidents took place at the busy bend which carries traffic between the airport and Town.
They want the road resurfaced and say the camber at the corner outside their front doors forces traffic over towards the pavement and the houses and should be altered.
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‘Danger road could kill’, Roads are not dangerous ,its the people who drive on them.
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What an awful headline Mr Editor!!
It it the motorist who is to blame for the vast majority of collisions, not ‘the road’
Whilst road conditions may be a minor contributory factor, collisions are usually caused by drivers failing to take notice of those conditions and therefore not driving accordingly – usually by going too fast
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The road is not a killer; it is neutral.
It is the idiots who drive on it who are the
killers.
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I don’t understand how you can crash on that bend, whoever does this must be really bad drivers.
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It’s only a matter of time until someone is attacked by a dual carriageway.
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It all kicked off when the cul de sac shouted
“Lets be avenue”
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Is the headline not acceptable if it’s a quote (Which I think it is)?
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Here we go, lane down the law again eh?
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Nothing wrong with the road /the camber /or the surface its just that people have forgotten how to use a steering wheel ,sheer laziness in obtaining your correct position on the road by not cutting corners or not knowing how wide your car is ,just sheer bad driving.
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Luckily the road wasn’t a psycho-path.
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I always say lorries are too big for Guernsey roads!
Today i was driving down the Rue Cauchez and a truck hit my car. I wasn’t hurt but I got the freight of my life.
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Install an Indy car type banking, that will address the camber issues and keep the kevs off the pavement. The only problem with the road is the drivers who can not drive in a responsible manner, nothing to do with the road…just bad driving.
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Sounds like a bit of an S… bend to me. Ah well, looks like we`re going downhill on this one, guess we`ve reached a dead end. Best to take a side road and by-pass the problem.
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I think that most of the roads in Guernsey could kill, its the amount and speed of the cars that does it funnily enough, and those still on their mobile phones and eating their lunch.
I am suprised there is not more accidents on Guernsey roads, everyone appears to be in a rush.
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I lived in the cottages on that bend for years and there were always accidents happening, at all times of year. cars ploughing into the wall, into our parked cars and even landing on top of in some instances, i recall in the 80′s a neighbours car having another on top of it only 15 mins after he had parked up. Another time having just put the bin out at 10pm we narrowly escaped injury as a car drove straight through the bins into the wall.Something has to be done, but why hasn’t anything been done previously? come on people this is not silverstone!
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Most of guernsey’s roads are just old tracks from years back with tarmac on top.Not many have been built with the motorist or safety in mind,technology has changed for the better but not are roads.
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