Poor Signage Blamed For 1500 Speeding Tickets

Nearly 1,500 drivers were clocked speeding on a stretch of Mansfield town centre road just one-third of a mile in length.

The figures, revealed by Nottinghamshire Police, reveal that motorists were caught breaking the 30 mph speed limit 1,468 times on Rosemary Street between Sutton Road and Ladybrook Lane from June 2015 to June 2016.

The road had a 40 mph speed limit up until January 2014, when the limit was reduced to 30 mph in response to a number of both minor and major accidents and injuries.

One motorist believes a lack of signage is to blame for so many drivers being caught out. Steve Hunt was clocked driving at 41 mph in October last year. He said:

"I have travelled down that road for four or five years to get home on a night and I have always gone 40 mph – even my satnav says it's still 40.

"I work in an office where three of us got caught, and all of us thought it was a 40 road. Apparently there's one 30 mph sign down there but I have not seen it."

However, Nottinghamshire County Council argues that extra signs are not required because the streetlights are sufficient to warn drivers that the road is a 30 mph zone. In fact the Council argues that the Department of Transport 'expressly forbids' the use of repeater 30 mph signs.

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