New average speed cameras will be coming to a major Bolton road plagued by 'idiotic and dangerous driving'. The new average speed system will be installed on a stretch of Chorley New Road from Tudor Avenue to the junction with Chorley Old Road, replacing the existing cameras. This comes after long running complaints about dangerous driving, with fatal crashes having happened on the road.
Cllr Richard Silvester, of Queens Park and Central, said: “This is excellent news. “I actually live on this stretch of Chorley New Road opposite to Queens Park and from my front windows and also when I am walking along the pavement of Chorley New Road, I see some absolutely idiotic and dangerous driving taking place, especially at night whereby drivers are speeding and indeed racing each other. A police officer carrying out a speed check on Chorley New Road (Image: Newsquest) “We all know of the tragedy which became upon our former Mayoress Gay Wharton a few years ago when she was crossing Chorley New Road on red lights on the pedestrian crossing adjacent to the main entrance of Queens Park, when she was killed by a boy racer who drove straight through and hit her.
” Mrs Wharton, who served as Mayoress of Bolton in 2014, died in November 2020 after being struck by a racing driver. Two men were jailed in June the following year for causing death by dangerous driving. One of them was then jailed again in December last year for dangerous driving on the very same road after his release.
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