Road users urged to drive safely following string of crashes in Sussex
Police are expecting more traffic as lockdown eases
Sussex Police are appealing to road users to take care and look out for others, following a string of serious crashes on the county's roads.
Two motorcyclists were taken to hospital with serious injuries following collisions with cars in Arundel on Thursday and in Runcton on Friday.
Meanwhile, a 56-year-old driver also needed hospital treatment for serious leg injuries after a crash between a car and a Land Rover on the A29 at Slinfold on March 11th.
Sussex Police have said that they are likely to see an increase in traffic on the roads in the coming weeks as the weather improves and Covid-19 lockdown restrictions ease to allow more non-essential travel to take place.
Officers have urged road users to concentrate at all times on their own driving and everyone else around them.
Sergeant Huw Watts from the Surrey and Sussex Roads Policing Unit said:
"There has been less traffic on the road in recent months due to the lockdown and chances are that people will be taking to the roads again a little rusty in their driving skills. This means that is essential to pay 100% attention.
"We continue in the throes of the Covid pandemic and it is in all our interests to ease the strain on emergency services, especially the NHS, by reducing the chances of road traffic collisions that may impact on those services.
"Of course people will want to be out and about again, but this must not be until restrictions allow it and once they do, we need people to be careful, considerate and drive within the law."
Sgt. Watts added that the force would continue to 'deal robustly' with those who choose to pose a threat to themselves and others, mostly through the so-called 'fatal five' most common causes of serious injury collisions - speeding, drink and drug-driving, mobile phone use, not wearing a seatbelt and careless driving.