Lib Dem acts to cut death toll at accident blackspot

1.25.13pm BST (GMT +0100) Tue 8th Jun 2010

Fiona Whelan

Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrat Leader, Fiona Whelan has called a meeting of residents, highway officers and councillors tomorrow (Wednesday,June 9) in a bid to end the death toll at a notorious Cambridge accident blackspot.

The meeting will take place at Madingley Village Hall at 7.30pm after three people died recently in three days on the A1303 Madingley Road.

Cllr Whelan, who represents the area, demanded the meeting in an attempt to find a solution to the road's accident record after the recent deaths.

Between 2005 and 2007 there were 25 injury accidents and speed played a part in all but one of them.

"The residents who live near this busy road are terrified to let their children cycle or walk to school and they are forced to watch accident after accident happening with nothing being done," said Cllr Whelan.

"How many more people need to die before the county council acts? I am hoping this meeting will give residents the chance to put forward their views and make the county council realise that this is a critical situation.

"We must have safety improvements on this road before it claims any more lives. To sit back and do nothing is not an option."