"It's hell" - Doncaster residents demand action on 'dangerous' road after ANOTHER fatality
Locals want the A635 to be safer
Last updated 27th Sep 2019
A week on from another fatal crash in a Doncaster village, locals say they're STILL waiting for the road there to be made safer.
Last Friday 17 year old Jay-Tyler Bromilow and his grandad Colin Leeson were hit by a lorry on the A635 in Hickleton and killed.
More than 23,000 vehicles drive on the single carriageway through the village and neighbouring Marr every day. There have been 11 significant crashes in the past year.
It's the main route between the M1 and A1 but locals say the road must be urgently made safer.
Richard lives near the road in Hickleton:
"It's hell basically. Inevitably there is a risk to life every day when someone tries either to cross the road or drive on the road - particularly at the crossroad.
"It should have been upgraded to a bypass. Thirty years ago Barnsley did their section but Doncaster decided there wasn't a significantly strong economic case so they've left us basically."
The crash that happened last week was at a well-known accident balckspot in the village - the cross road where the A635 meets Hickleton Road and Red Hill Lane.
Richard says it needs imrpoving:
"There's been three major crashes here in the last year, with the fatality last week.
"But that's not been the only fatality - in the past years there have been other people killed and it is so dangerous because some people don't realise that is is a crossing. The sinegage is so poor, if not inadequate."
Doncaster Council are putting forward a business case for a new bypass on the A635 to avoid Hickleton and Marr, but Richard says it's needed urgently:
"It's too slow. There's no funding - Doncaster have said they don't have the money for this. So even if we do get a positive business case, they're going to have to go to government to get the money.
"That will take time and we're worried none of us will be alive to see this bypass.
Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones said:
“The development of a strategic business case for a Dearne Valley to the A1 regeneration route is in preparation.
“The route under investigation is from the A6195 Broomhill roundabout northwards to the A6195/A635 roundabout at Cathill and eastwards on the A635 to the A1M junction 37 at Marr.
“The potential scheme will both include online and offline improvements but its objective is to provide additional road capacity to facilitate development in the Dearne Valley and connecting it to the strategic road network."