Continuing problem with boy racers

deposit on a courtesy car and pay the £350 excess until I can get it back from his insurance company. The whole thing has been a massive pain.”

Mr Southerden said that as Hunter Road is a bus route, residents can only park on one side so vehicles often speed up when another driver is holding back to let them past.

He continued: “Speeding is an enormous problem in Hunter Road. You regularly see people going down there at 40 or 50mph and you hear lots of horns going off and people arguing. A lot of residents would like to Hunter Road and Albemarle Road made into alternate one-way streets with speed bumps but the coun- Cllr Jeremy Adby is ABC’s other North Willesborough ward member and has pledged to support his colleague.

He said: “There is a continuing problem with boy racers, not only in North Willesborough but in the borough as a whole. Drivers park up in certain car parks and speed around the cil seems to have pooh-poohed that idea.”

A police spokesman said: “We were called to a report of an overturned vehicle. The car had also collided with a number of parked ring road like it’s a race track. It’s getting out of control now.

“Some residents have suggested making Hunter Road and one other one-way but I can’t really see that solving the problem. What we need to do is put in traffic calming measures. This would be down to KCC but I would support Cllr Koowaree.” vehicles. The male driver was uninjured and there were no other reported injuries. The car, a black BMW, was recovered at 7.15am.”

Although residents and coun- cillors believe speeding is a problem in Hunter Road, no one has been arrested in connection with Sunday’s crash and there is no suggestion the driver was speeding.

The scene of the crash in Hunter Road