We demand the urgent installation of continuous average-speed cameras along the entire A628 corridor from the A57 Gun Inn junction, through Hollingworth, Tintwistle and Woodhead Pass, to the A616 Flouch roundabout.

Two people have been killed on this road within sixteen days. How many more people must die before decisive action is taken?

On 3 August 2026, a man in his twenties was killed in Tintwistle and four other people were seriously injured. On 19 August, a woman in her seventies was killed in another collision near Hollingworth.

Two families have had their lives changed forever in less than three weeks.

These deaths were preceded by years of collisions and serious injuries. Department for Transport data records 66 police-reported personal-injury collisions and 109 casualties on this corridor between 2021 and 2025 alone. Twenty-one collisions were classified as serious.

These figures exclude damage-only crashes, incidents that were not reported to police and the complete collision figures for 2026. The true scale of the danger is therefore even greater.

This is not an isolated problem, an unfortunate coincidence or a risk that residents should simply be expected to tolerate. It is a persistent and foreseeable road-safety emergency.

The A628 carries large volumes of traffic, including heavy goods vehicles, along an exposed, winding single carriageway and directly through residential communities. Drivers descend into villages where people live, walk, cross the road and travel to school. One moment of excessive or inappropriate speed can result in a head-on collision, catastrophic injury or death.

Residents regularly hear emergency sirens, witness devastating collisions and face hours of complete road closures. People are regularly  becoming trapped in or shut out of their own villages. Workers cannot reach their jobs, children and staff cannot reach schools and patients miss medical care.

Residents should not have to live in fear of the next collision. Families should not have to wonder whether their loved ones will return home safely.

Warning signs and occasional police enforcement have not been enough. Fixed cameras allow drivers to slow briefly before accelerating again. Continuous average-speed enforcement would require drivers to maintain a safer speed across the entire corridor—including the dangerous bends, descents and residential sections. Humps throughout residential areas should also be considered. 

We call upon the Government and National Highways to:

1. Fund and install continuous average-speed cameras along the entire A628 corridor between the A57 and A616 without further delay.

2. Conduct an urgent, transparent safety review of speed limits, collision locations, road design and pedestrian safety.

3. Introduce immediate temporary enforcement while the camera system is installed.

4. Reduce speed limits and implement physical traffic-calming measures, including speed tables where appropriate, through Hollingworth and Tintwistle.

5. Publish a clear timetable for delivering these measures and report publicly on progress.

Another review without action is not enough. Another warning sign is not enough. Waiting for another fatality is unacceptable.

The evidence is already there: repeated collisions, more than 100 casualties and now two deaths within sixteen days.

Act now—before another person is killed and another family is destroyed.