At last weeks Parish Council meeting,, several ladies from near Baileys Lane attended the meeting,, they were vocal and very rightly so. One lady explained that she and her child were nearly killed in a road accident involving a speeding motorist and that her child was unwell afterwards-shaking with shock at their near miss!. The same lady,, attended, (if I remember right) a CAT meeting well over 8/12 months ago voicing her concerns over madcap road users speeding in her area of Baileys Lane and that an accident was sure to happen. Between then and now,, the situation is still the same, were apathy rules on the roads of Hale Village and Baileys Lane/Hale Road, only today (22nd May) at 2.30pm on Town Lane myself and a local village lady-Mrs Grace, witnessed two speeding vehicles go the wrong way round the War Memorial at high speed, one was a yellow and black ford transit tipper with a trailer on the back followed by a People Carrier Taxi which had taxi plates on it. We witnessed both vehicles motoring up Town Lane at speed and go around the monument on the right-hand side over the white Chevron markings near the Post Office. They were going that fast,, all we saw was a cloud of dust by the Hale Village sign on the green/memorial. These arseholes completely ignored the fact that they were in a school crossing zone clearly marked up with signs and flashing beacons.. If they had come through 20/30 minutes later,, children would have been crossing from Hale School around 3pm!?
Those who are in the area of Town Lane and the High Street on a daily basis,, often witness speeding and Dukes of Hazard style driving. With little or no deterrent on the roads in Hale or by Baileys Lane,, madcap motorists are free to drive how they like through Hale L24.
Recent incidents include an accident on the War Memorial, an accident involving a skip on the High Street, an accident on Hale Road near Baileys Lane and motorists driving around the memorial on the wrong side..
The worst locations for speeding appear to be near Baileys Lane, down Hale Road into the village routing through the High Street and Town Lane..
Bring back Geoff Grimmes and Mrs Boydell!?….
Good Morning Will – on our way out @ 5.15pm last night we saw 3 quad bikesheading towards us on the path – we stayed in the opening that brings you around to our preventing them from going into the woods – 2 had no. plates and one didnt. They sat looking at us for a couple of minutes and went onto the field that has the childrens play area on it – I think they knew we had the reg and called the police and so they left the park in the direction of Speke. the two road vehicles travelled back and front of the off road one so you couldnt see it was illegally on the road. Im a bit wary of letting them know it was us who called the police they churn the grass up regularly. I will let you know if the police call me back to update us. Best Regards Cerri
By: Cerri Gallagher on June 5, 2008
at 7:40 am
P.S. if we had security cameras we would have all this information without getting the public involved. Cerri
By: Cerri Gallagher on June 5, 2008
at 7:42 am
Hi Cerri
Many thanks for your comments/input
I too have seen a quad bike a month or two back,, a yellow one I think with two lads on it speeding uptowards the Child going up Church Road? I did mange to get the reg/No of the bike and passed it to Steve the PCSO to follow up,, I have also seen motorbikes tearing down the track by your walled garden in the wood,, even to the extent when the biker was there,, there was also a police car parked up by the changing rooms- I don’t know why the police car driver never came to where Mal lives or Orchord Dell to have a look as you could hear the noise of the bike some hundred yeards away.
It was also scaring the horses and the people attending to them, in the paddock opposite Hale Hall gardens.
More or less every evening and at weekends,, I can hear such engines tearing up the High Street and in the park were you are.
Do you see any police down there on a regular basis?
William
There is a CAT/Police meeting on Monday 9th of June at 19.30hrs/7.30pm at Hale Primary School if you have time to go and tell them what is going on?
By: William/Hale Village Online on June 5, 2008
at 12:49 pm
Hello William – to be fair the police do come down here – I did report 2 vans in the woods a while ago and they were very quick to respond – because the woods are privately owned there wasnt much they could do but just a police presence does the trick paricularly if they are up to no good.
By: Cerri Gallagher on June 10, 2008
at 10:07 am