Campaigners in call for speed camera or crossing on road

CAMPAIGNERS are determined to get a speed camera or crossing on a stretch of road where a Nuneaton schoolboy tragically lost his life.

It has been 16 months since Hartshill School pupil Harley Jackson died.

The young boy was on his bike when he collided with a car on Coleshill Road in Ansley Common on November 2, 2019.

He later died at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.

Friends of Harley previously staged a ‘slow down’ on the road but now the campaign is being stepped up for more permanent measures.

A Facebook page, entitled ‘Harley’s Road Safety - for the love of Harley’ has been created to gather support in the communuity to put pressure on Warwickshire County Council.

Michaela Jackson, a parish councillor for the area, said they have made a pledge to children in the area that they would make the road safer for them.

“We have been fighting for years to improve the road safety in Ansley Common,” she said.

“Following Harley’s accident a group of us got together and promised the local children we would make the road safer for them, cars speed past constantly and it’s difficult for an adult to cross let alone a child.”

She said the group has a number of key aims, they are:

For Warwickshire County Council to devise a better way to risk assess our roads than with our children’s lives.

To adopt a ‘It could happen here’ approach to road safety and not tolerate the risk of residents lives where improvements could have and should have prevented it.

An independent, evidence based review of all available traffic management systems, e.g. SIDS, 20’s plenty, horizontal and vertical infrastructure in residential zones.

An investigation and implementation plan based on evidence of how other councils have successfully improved road safety.

More powers and greater partnerships to local parish/town councils, local community groups and local representatives to identify danger areas on the roads in their area.

Local representatives able to identify and request monitoring on ‘hot spots’ based on local intelligence.

A proactive ‘Walk to school programme’ to include funding for walking buses, identification of a safe routes and parking areas near every Warwickshire school.

Road/ speed testing to be carried out a minimum of times times at different times of day, one of which should include a school run if schools are in the immediate area to on any site identified as a hazard by local groups.

Monthly inter-agency meetings of Road Safety committee with local representative from town/parish council and community groups when appropriate.

Through the campaign, the group wants to force a change.

“There are too many accidents on our roads, too many families who’s lives are devastated and too little action taken by Warwickshire County Council,” she said.

To join the group and get involved, search ‘Harley’s Road Safety - for the love of Harley’ on Facebook.

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