Pedestrian Crossing

Lincoln Road Metheringham

For some time now Metheringham Parish Council has had major concerns regarding the safety of the Pedestrian Crossing on Lincoln Road near to Dunston cross roads. Because of these concerns the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership was asked to carry out a survey. Unfortunately the conclusion of their Engineer’s survey suggested that the signing and lay-out of the crossing was good and he could not suggest any further changes to improve matters. When visiting the site over a number of occasions none of their officers witnessed any misuse of the crossing by passing traffic which makes it even more difficult to identify any improvements. Despite this local people will say it is a known fact that there have been numerous instances of near misses and unfortunately these will continue to occur. The LRSP are mindful of our concerns and in order that they can address these they are asking for all instances of misuse to be reported so that a pattern can be identified.
The key details which they feel would be useful are:-
(a) direction of travel of both vehicle and pedestrian and (b) whether the incident was in daylight or darkness.
To have any chance of improving this location and to safeguard everyone who uses it the Parish Council would ask that both drivers and pedestrians adopt a higher awareness when using this crossing. Also should any incidents of misuse occur could the information please be reported to the Clerk to the Parish Council