MP’s action call over danger road (From Bournemouth Echo)

MP’s action call over danger road

4:00pm Thursday 16th October 2008 in

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BRANSGORE residents should take direct action if there is no other way of getting improvements to the road junction that claimed the life of young Aarron Keeping, says MP Desmond Swayne.

Aarron, 12, died at the dangerous staggered crossroads at the junction of Burley Road and Ringwood Road when in collision with a car there on September 30.

It was the second death of a child in the village centre in less than six years.

In March 2003 Linzi Wright died when she was in collision with a car opposite the parade of shops in Ringwood Road.

Mr Swayne, who used to live in Burley Road, Bransgore, said he had written to the Highways Authority.

“The state of the roads is determined by Hampshire County Council. But we have had two fatalities around there and the provision ought to be examined.”

He said the parish council was going to try to take it forward, but he had written to his correspondents telling them if that approach is unsuccessful “the way to pursue this is to have a meeting, to have a demonstration”.

He welcomed the news a county highways officer had suggested the proposed 30mph speed limit, due to to replace the current 40mph limit in Burley Road by the end of the financial year, should be extended from Thorney Hill to the village’s western boundary.

“That would be entirely appropriate. Thirty all the way up would be an advantage,” he said.

The parish council has its next meeting in the village hall, Burley Road, on Tuesday, October 21, 7.30pm.