Make safety improvements to the A46 between Stratford and Alcester.
The Issue
After yet another loss of life on the A46 on 13th October, the Herald is demanding that action is taken to make the road safer.
For at least the past decade there have been calls to improve safety on the stretch of road between Stratford and Alcester.
On Friday, 13th October, evening at around 8.40pm, a male driver in his 20s was killed on the notoriously dangerous stretch of road at Red Hill after his BMW collided with an HGV.
The car ended up in a ditch and he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
Almost exactly 24 hours later five people were seriously injured after a head-on collision involving two cars on the A46 near Billesley, another accident blackspot.
In just the past few years there have been five fatal accidents on the road, and numerous collisions involving serious injuries.
National Highways scrapped plans to make it safer and potentially save lives. In 2018 it announced designs for improvements to Haselor Hill and the Billesley junctions, two areas implicated in the latest collisions, but by 2021 it had ditched the project because of a lack of funding, and instead put in a number of ‘Slow Down’ signs.
Although driver error may be involved in many accidents, motorists say that the road itself is hazardous and invites poor decision-making. They point to over-taking lanes that suddenly end and the width of the road means single lanes are treated like a dual carriageway. Other drivers said turning into the fast-moving A46 – such as from the Drayton, Billesley and Red Hill turnings – feels like “gambling with your life”.
It's time for something to be done before another life is needlessly lost.
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The Issue
After yet another loss of life on the A46 on 13th October, the Herald is demanding that action is taken to make the road safer.
For at least the past decade there have been calls to improve safety on the stretch of road between Stratford and Alcester.
On Friday, 13th October, evening at around 8.40pm, a male driver in his 20s was killed on the notoriously dangerous stretch of road at Red Hill after his BMW collided with an HGV.
The car ended up in a ditch and he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
Almost exactly 24 hours later five people were seriously injured after a head-on collision involving two cars on the A46 near Billesley, another accident blackspot.
In just the past few years there have been five fatal accidents on the road, and numerous collisions involving serious injuries.
National Highways scrapped plans to make it safer and potentially save lives. In 2018 it announced designs for improvements to Haselor Hill and the Billesley junctions, two areas implicated in the latest collisions, but by 2021 it had ditched the project because of a lack of funding, and instead put in a number of ‘Slow Down’ signs.
Although driver error may be involved in many accidents, motorists say that the road itself is hazardous and invites poor decision-making. They point to over-taking lanes that suddenly end and the width of the road means single lanes are treated like a dual carriageway. Other drivers said turning into the fast-moving A46 – such as from the Drayton, Billesley and Red Hill turnings – feels like “gambling with your life”.
It's time for something to be done before another life is needlessly lost.
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Petition created on 19 October 2023