25 July (Part 1) - “A recipe for head on crashes”
Only a couple of hundred metres east of
last week's crash
we have another in Abbey Road, Belvedere. To be fair to Bexley Council it
was not part of the road stupidly narrowed in 2009. It has been as it is now for
all the time I have lived nearby.
Care is always needed due to the restricted sight line and the parking which
forces traffic over the middle line and despite its infrequency there is too
often a bus coming around the bend.
Someone who was on the scene just before the police arrived said it looked as
though someone had stopped to allow another driver to pull out of a parking
space and patience was in short supply. It was not the right time for a high speed overtake
into oncoming traffic.
Photo by Rebecca.
“A recipe for head on crashes.” Comment on Bexley’s road design from the Chairman of the EU Vehicle Safety Committee.