Petition over 'dangerous' Bull in the Oaks junction handed in
The current layout of the crossroads requires drivers on the B585 to give way to vehicles on the A447.Mr Palmer said the junction had an "awful track record of crashes".He added: "It's a matter of several factors I think. It's a very busy junction and traffic is quite heavy now on the A447. "[It's] an extremely busy junction with lots of drivers of all description of vehicles trying to get across it at various times of the day."
'Make it safe'
Mr Palmer, who has lived in Market Bosworth since 1962, said there had been 25 recorded crashes there where people had been killed or injured since 2001 but added that the real number of crashes without injury there was "far, far" higher.He said that although the petition called for traffic lights at the junction, he would not be against an island there."The Market Bosworth Society decided that as an island had been looked at before and dismissed, we were presenting a ready-made excuse if we went along that route, so traffic lights were considered as being a cheaper alternative, simple to deploy and would solve the problem by actually stopping traffic whilst people moved about," Mr Palmer added."Not ideal perhaps compared to an island, but it would make it safe, and that's what we're looking to try and do."
The county council said it had 28 days to examine the data it has on the crossroads before responding.
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