Calls For County Durham Road To Be Made Safer
Villagers and councillors want a stretch of the A688 near Staindrop to be made safer after two deaths in under six weeks.
Villagers and councillors want a stretch of the A688 near Staindrop to be made safer after two deaths in under six weeks.
The first was dad-of-three Paul Armstrong who died in a crash just before Dunhouse Quarry on the 26th April.
Then on Friday 29th May a 17-year-old boy died when his car left the road at Barford Corner.
Both were from Cockfield.
People in the village have told TFM that they are devastated.
Sandra Kirby runs the Kings Head Inn she said: “Absolutely gutted, it’s shocked everybody.
“I think the village will campaign big time, something’s got to be done.”
Councillor James Rowlandson is also pushing for a change to the stretch of road: “We need to sit down with the highways department and see what they can come up with in the way of calming measures or whatever warning signs can be put up.”