Intersection fix on way, DCC says, after crash
A PROBLEMATIC South Dunedin intersection has been the scene of another crash, but the Dunedin City Council says a fix is on the way.
Two cars collided at the intersection of Tedder and Market Sts about 11.20am yesterday.
The crash left both mangled cars blocking the road until they were towed away, although the occupants escaped injury.
A police officer at the scene said one car appeared to have failed to give way.
The driver of one of the vehicles, Dawn, who declined to give her last name, said she was travelling down Tedder St when a car approached from her left at the intersection.
‘‘I saw him — I just expected him to stop, that’s all.’’
She blamed a change to giveway rules at the intersection, introduced last year to accommodate the rollout of the botched South Dunedin cycle network, for the crash.
‘‘Some people are still not up with the play with the new giveway rules,’’ she said.
Neighbours agreed, including Wayne White who said it was the third serious crash at the intersection in the past year.
Before the changes, the busier Market St had right of way over Tedder St, and despite the new rules being in force for more than a year, people were still driving straight through, residents said.
Mr White said residents were frustrated at the lack of progress in fixing the intersection.
‘‘Someone will get killed here soon,’’ he said.
Council asset and commercial manager Merrin McCrory, in a written statement, said work to fix the intersection was expected to begin at the end of March.
That would include changing the intersection’s priority back to its former arrangement, giving traffic in Market St the right of way again.
The intersection would also be resealed, with new stop markings added, and builtout kerbs would be ‘‘pulled back to make them less sharp’’, she said.
‘‘This will make it easier for traffic to drive around the corners.’’
Downer contractors were expected to complete the $63,500 project by the end of April.
chris.morris@odt.co.nz