I sat waiting in the car at the far end of the car park at Willow Brook Centre this lunch time. Hubby took the trolley back. The number of cars that were ignoring the 10mph speed limit was worrying. One woman in a small silver car went past revving her engine very loud, just looking to the side. Made me
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The Bradley Stoke police team has reported a surge in people volunteering to become members of the town’s Community Speed Watch initiative, with the number involved set to double by the end of the month. The team was formed with the minimum required six members in July, following several years of appeals for people to come forward (we reported in
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A Bradley Stoke motorist is claiming that police and community volunteers carrying out speed checks in the area have been improperly “hiding” behind road signs and bushes during their monitoring operations. Mark Setterfield, 26, claims that members of the recently formed Community Speed Watch team and assisting PCSOs are violating police guidelines that require speed traps to be clearly visible
Continue readingThe local beat team have announced that a Community Speed Watch scheme is about to commence in Bradley Stoke. The news was first revealed at last Tuesday’s Safer and Stronger Communities Group meeting and was confirmed today in an announcement on the police website. The local police team have been looking to set up a scheme since at least June
Continue readingA speed reminder sign positioned in Woodlands Road, Bradley Stoke, has shown that 85% of traffic travels faster than 35mph – in an area where the legal speed limit is 30mph. The ‘Speedvisor’ sign was set up to measure the speed of east bound vehicles between 3rd February and 14th March, after repeated complaints about speeding had been made at
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Police in Bradley Stoke have once again appealed for residents to volunteer to take part in a Community Speed Watch scheme. The move follows the recent decision of the Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group to once again designate “speeding in the Woodlands Lane area” to be a priority issue. The police say they need at least six people
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Four drivers have been fined for speeding on roads frequented by Bradley Stoke drivers. Police officers from the Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford Neighbourhood Team carried out the speed checks in New Road and Great Stoke Way, Stoke Gifford, and Orpheus Avenue, Little Stoke, on Tuesday 28th September 2010. As well as issuing on-the-spot fines to four drivers, they pulled
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Bradley Stoke police say they have caught around 40 motorists breaking the speed limit in Woodlands Lane after a resident raised concerns at a Safer & Stronger Community Group (SSCG) meeting in April. The meeting actioned the local beat team to carry out speed checks in the area, which were subsequently implemented during the last two weeks in May. Police
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