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Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Nine collisions in one year at accident blackspot
There have been nine accidents in one year at a new roundabout on the outskirts of a Norfolk town, figures obtained by the BBC have shown. The roundabout on the A146 near Loddon was installed in the spring of 2022, replacing a staggered crossroads. Statistics from Norfolk Police showed a total of 14 accidents since January 2022, with the vast majority taking place during 2024. The leader of Norfolk County Council, Kay Mason Billig, said larger road signs would be installed in the near future, but she had been left surprised by the recent increase. "I have also spoken with the police to try to ascertain whether there is a common denominator for these incidents," she said. "And it appears there are a multitude of reasons, so it is hard to understand why this is happening. "Nearly all the accidents occur on the Beccles side of the roundabout. There doesn't seem to be any issue with the other approaches." The figures from Norfolk Police showed that one of the 2024 accidents resulted in a serious injury, another involved slight injuries as well as seven where no-one was hurt. In 2023 there were two collisions - one between a car and a bicycle, the other a single car; while in 2022 there were two non-injury car collisions and another between a car and a cyclist. Ms Mason Billig, Conservative, said the council was also looking at the lighting on the approach signs, as well as at the roundabout itself. "If rumble strips on the road surface, which are being trialled in Chedgrave, are successful, we could look at installing them here as well. "In the meantime, we just have to appeal to drivers to please slow down." Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. New signs and lights for accident blackspot Norfolk County Council
BBC News
10-03-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Nine collisions in one year at Loddon A146 accident blackspot
There have been nine accidents in one year at a new roundabout on the outskirts of a Norfolk town, figures obtained by the BBC have roundabout on the A146 near Loddon was installed in the spring of 2022, replacing a staggered from Norfolk Police showed a total of 14 accidents since January 2022, with the vast majority taking place during 2024. The leader of Norfolk County Council, Kay Mason Billig, said larger road signs would be installed in the near future, but she had been left surprised by the recent increase. "I have also spoken with the police to try to ascertain whether there is a common denominator for these incidents," she said."And it appears there are a multitude of reasons, so it is hard to understand why this is happening."Nearly all the accidents occur on the Beccles side of the roundabout. There doesn't seem to be any issue with the other approaches." The figures from Norfolk Police showed that one of the 2024 accidents resulted in a serious injury, another involved slight injuries as well as seven where no-one was 2023 there were two collisions - one between a car and a bicycle, the other a single car; while in 2022 there were two non-injury car collisions and another between a car and a cyclist. Ms Mason Billig, Conservative, said the council was also looking at the lighting on the approach signs, as well as at the roundabout itself."If rumble strips on the road surface, which are being trialled in Chedgrave, are successful, we could look at installing them here as well."In the meantime, we just have to appeal to drivers to please slow down." Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
28-01-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Norfolk council questioned over Western Link Road costs
Questions have been asked about how millions of pounds spent on a controversial road plan will be repaid if it is not County Council has withdrawn its planning application for the Norwich Western Link (NWL), but could have to repay the £33m the government provided for the the road unlikely to go ahead, opposition parties asked what plans the Conservative-run authority had in place to cover money already leader Kay Mason Billig said costs for the project had "always" been included in the council's budget. Last week, the council dropped its planning application to the government for the 3.9-mile (6.2km) road connecting the Northern Distributor Road (NDR) around Norwich to the A47 west of the was because rules protecting rare bats meant a licence was unlikely to be millions of pounds had already been spent on things including buying land and staff and consultants' costs. Mason Billig told a council meeting the authority was still in talks with government about whether the project had a future."I can't give you an exact answer, because until the DfT [Department for Transport] come forward with the answers to our questions, we're not going to know which direction we need to head in," she was responding to a question from Labour councillor Steve Morphew, who had pointed out the council's own "risk register" listed the costs of the road as a "red risk"."It is quite extraordinary the Conservative administration has painted Norfolk into this damaging corner despite multiple warnings," he said. The Greens' Jamie Osborn also asked for details of a contingency plan and said the council could face "financial catastrophe" if it needed to repay millions of the meeting, he said he wanted to see "honesty from the Conservatives and clarity on where they expect the money to come from".Despite growing doubts over the future of the road, the council insisted it still hoped to build the Conservative councillor responsible for transport, Graham Plant, said: "We haven't dropped it; we haven't stopped it."The Department for Transport has said it would "continue to work with Norfolk County Council on measures to improve congestion [problems]". Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
