Residents in Drury Lane Buckley calling for a 7.5 Ton Limit

Corporate Responsibility for Councils continued.......

In The Chronicle. County Councilors Dennis Hutchinson and Mike Peers calling for 7.5 ton limit for Drury Lane. They believe lorry drivers are taking a short cut to avoid VOSA vehicle testing centre. We in Chester Road Penyffordd have over perhaps a 100 lorries a day taking a short cut, many of them breaking the speed limit. Flintshire Highways say they need £4000 for the sign for Drury.

Buckley Town Council say tough.

Perhaps Penyffordd's County Councilors Colin Bithell and David Williams should have a talk to Dennis and Mike.
Councilor Hutchinson says if anyone is hurt he will hold Flintshire Highways responsible......quite!

Baby killed when car mounts kerb

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Here in Chester Rd Penyffordd we await Flintshire County Council's efforts to stop our 2000 daily speeders.

The Three Musketeers - Further Adventures

View the following with the thought that one of these children is your child or grandchild.
My first article here


The Three Musketeers plus D'Artagnan returning after a trip across 40 - 50 mph Chester Rd.
Mr Lampard seems good, 3rd job in the road. Currently knocking down the wall from
next door or sounds like it!

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis -- inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one".


This is D'Artagnan on the way to the Post Office. He has just crossed this road that has 40 - 50 mph vehicles every few minutes. The Audi was too close to D'Artagnan at the junction, its an Audi driver thing, they sell lots of these to idiots who have not one second to loose. ( My MP excepted) Education does not appear to preclude one from being an idiot, perhaps our education system?
We come out the house and we are at this same position waiting because D'Artagnan has got his sweets, got on the bike is on the mainroad and is going to turn left into Penymynydd Rd which is my right. He holds out his left arm signalling, we are impressed. He then looses it, he rides in front of our car then up Penymynydd Rd between my car and the pavement on the wrong side of the road.

This road wants closing down. 20 mph Compulsory, HGV's excluded, 24/7 method of traffic calming both directions, that's not Arrive Alive or North Wales Police.
Through traffic to use the By - Pass.

Wikipedia on Corporate Manslaughter

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A Corporate Manslaughter Special

Current Scenario.
Wrexham and Flintshire County Council's get the same amount of money from The Welsh Assembly Government, I am told.

Wrexham Council has its villages tied down traffic calming wise. A visit to Cefn Mawr, Rhosllanerchrugog or Rossett shows various methods of mechanical traffic calming that shut down the traffic 24/7 . No 80 mph motorcycles there. They have 20 mph compulsory zones they take their traffic calming seriously. They have a good Chief Executive.

North Wales Police, Arrive Alive and Flintshire County Council know that 2000 vehicles speed through Chester Rd, Penyffordd daily. I have told them the village centre is used by OAP's, horses and children. They have known this for at least 3 months. Flintshire County Council perhaps a lot longer.

Chester Road in Penyffordd is wide open to speeders. I have told them all that 6 year old children are cycling on a road with 50 mph vehicles. Chester Road is a route to school with speeds of 50 mph.
Current plans that I know about do not include any method of making traffic do 30 mph or better still compulsory 20 mph for village centre.

Flintshire County Council who say they have no money are currently proposing to build a skate park in Connah's Quay. Over £50,000 on Wepre Golf Course

Leisure amenities coming before the Safety of Penyffordd residents, also perhaps Corporate Liability.

Last week a Headmaster from Bangor was found guilty at Mold Crown Court of Corporate Manslaughter (Click link below)
IMHO it should have been the Hospital on trial.
Someone once asked me allegedly, were all lawyers bastards or were all bastards lawyers?



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The Three Musketeers

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It's the school holidays. Here we have the 3 musketeers. They are opposite Penyffordd Junior School. Three cars coming down the hill. The yellow bumps are a token, modern cars can go over them fast. Locals speed up and down here taking and picking up their children to the school.

These three are part of a group of maybe ten who ride up and down this road. Chester Rd is at the bottom where cars do 50 - 60 mph. Many 100's each day. Parents are concerned they tell the children not to go into Chester Rd. Really they should be shouting at Flintshire County Council and our Councilors but they are not. (update my councilor tells me different, I ask for an update)

There should be a risk assessment of the village centre, there is not.

Six year olds do not do risk assessment, a lot of parents have too many things to think about.
Our councilors are not fully on the case.

Flintshire County Council has the data, they know how many speed. The measures currently being shown will NOT stop the speeding.

Oh, by the way, 5 year old children ( or maybe 10 yrs old) have started cycling on our 50 mph Chester Road , I have seen 2 of them this morning.
One of the children has a helmet on, these don't work with a 50 mph collision.

The 100 mph Motorbike Test

I've mentioned this before but perhaps I have a bigger audience. Rossett and Penyffordd are both
ex A roads or trunk roads now superceded by By Passes*. Penyffordd in Flintshire and Rossett in Wrexham.
A motorbike can ride through Penyffordd which is wide open and reach 100 mph before the end of the 30 mph limit.
A similar stunt in Rossett would make you brown bread dead. They have bumps and 20 mph Compulsory speed limit.
The mechanical method protects the village 24/7.
Proactive signs facing in the other direction do nothing.
Horses are ridden on this road by adults and children

* I am currently unaware of the true nature of Chester Road's designation

I'm going to concentrate on 3 new labels

At the risk of boring some.
1. Corporate Responsibility
2. FCC We have no money, all the extra money Flintshire County Council spend after telling Chester Rd, Penyffordd, there is no money left.
3. Fine Talk, this being the "vision thing" against the reality

North Wales Safety Forum

I see the above are at The Eisteddfod. Forum member Sonia Thompson quoted "The Welsh Ambulance Trust has a passion to help reduce road deaths and become a key player in road safety education (a very large undertaking) The impact of young people dying within small knit communities is immense and if the Welsh Ambulance Service can contribute to the minimising those experiences and the loss, then that's a step in the right direction.

My thanks to Chester Chronicle.

Fine words from Sonia. Here in Chester Road we have the fine mix of children, Oap's and horses plus 60mph cars, 2000 speeders a day, the occasional 90 mph motorcycle.