Accident - Chalky Road, Mile Oak

[Mileoakman]

While not wanting particularly to prolong the discussion about Mile Oak 'Chavs', it seems probable that as the poor young lad and his mother were getting off the bus to visit the Leisure Centre they almost certainly wern't from Mile Oak. I know the Leisure Centre always run activities for kiddies during the summer holidays and this attracts children from quite a wide area outside of Mile Oak.

Incidently I agree that something else needs to be done about this stretch of road. There's a 20mph limit around the corner in Graham Avenue outside the Primary School together with some rather nasty speed bumps. You can't use speed bumps in Chalky Road because its used by buses, but a 20mph limit would seem to be a sensible idea plus something to slow things down in Fox Way. I have lost count of the number of times I've driven along Fox Way at 30mph only to be tutted at and then overtaken by some idiot trying to shave a few seconds of his trip.

 

[Easy 10]

Fox Way is wierd. Its (quite rightly) a 30mph limit, but for some reason, it really does feel as though you are crawling along that stretch of road when you're doing 30. I got pulled over by a cop with a speedgun a few years ago as I was doing 36 along there - luckily he let me off with a warning, and I've been careful to stay on 30 along there ever since.

But you're quite right Mileoakman - you often get drivers right up yer arse along Fox Way because 30 just SEEMS really slow on that stretch. I suppose its because its a fairly wide road and not particularly built up, what with one side being all fields.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Cheers for that! I have a concealed entrance, on a semi rural road about 30 metres from a hump backed bridge. Cars crossing the bridge cannot see my entrance until almost on top of it. The limit is set at 40mph, but some idiots exceed this considerably. I would like to get the limit reduced to 30mph. I spoke to the local police who said that statistically it would need a fatality in the vicinity of the bridge to get anything done, but I could consider getting a petition together.

Speak to the highway authority as well - in your case that'll be Surrey or Hampshire County Council. They are the people who employ the folk whose work sometimes gets a headline in the local paper that reads "NOT ENOUGH DEATHS SAYS COUNCIL'S ENGINEER"

 

[Mendoza]

Love it, child seriously hurt, fighting for his life and his scared mother could only watch on in horror, fearing she lost a child she loves so dearly, road safety issues outside of a school =

NSCers squabbling and making a binfest

Pass me some Friday Pringles

 

[ali jenkins]

Fox Way is wierd. Its (quite rightly) a 30mph limit, but for some reason, it really does feel as though you are crawling along that stretch of road when you're doing 30. I got pulled over by a cop with a speedgun a few years ago as I was doing 36 along there - luckily he let me off with a warning, and I've been careful to stay on 30 along there ever since.

But you're quite right Mileoakman - you often get drivers right up yer arse along Fox Way because 30 just SEEMS really slow on that stretch. I suppose its because its a fairly wide road and not particularly built up, what with one side being all fields.

That road used to be 40mph when it first opened but I think a child got run over a few months after it opened and it got moved to 30mph.

 

[supaseagull]

Love it, child seriously hurt, fighting for his life and his scared mother could only watch on in horror, fearing she lost a child she loves so dearly, road safety issues outside of a school =

NSCers squabbling and making a binfest

Pass me some Friday Pringles

Completely agree...those responsible should hang their heads in shame...

 

[Shegull]

While not wanting particularly to prolong the discussion about Mile Oak 'Chavs', it seems probable that as the poor young lad and his mother were getting off the bus to visit the Leisure Centre they almost certainly wern't from Mile Oak.




This is exactly what I was going to say and given the fact that his mother was with him at the time would indicate that he is not one of these children who pop out of the womb and are left to rear themselves and teach themselves the ways of the world.

Lets hope he pulls through.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I know every time someone gets hurt on one of our roads it's easy to start pleading for reduced speed limits, traffic calming measures, more crossings etc etc.

But sometimes things happen that are beyond mere predictability. You just can't account for every variable in life.

Children (sadly) will always be vulnerable to running out into traffic. Even those who do the right thing and teach their kids the green cross code and so on, you can never 100% guarantee that there won't be one occasion in their life when they forget what they've learned and rush out excitedly to see a friend, the ice cream van, catch a a ball, or whatever.

That road in Mile Oak already has more safety measures than many. There is no suggestion that the driver of the car was speeding. Therefore all the hand wringing in the world wouldn't help that little boy.

It's difficult for us to deal with, as we like to think we're in control of our destiny, but sometimes bad things just HAPPEN, and there's nothing any of us can do.

 

[British Bulldog]

Love it, child seriously hurt, fighting for his life and his scared mother could only watch on in horror, fearing she lost a child she loves so dearly, road safety issues outside of a school =

NSCers squabbling and making a binfest

Pass me some Friday Pringles

Your quite right I should'nt lower myself by going into slagging matches and binfests on these types of threads but it's a subject that does hit home very hard with me. Having been on the recieving end of having young family members being injured and killed in accidents I not only know what that poor family will be going through at the moment, but I also know the hurt that can be caused to them by people making they're own assumptions of what happened, what type of child they are and what type of neglectful patents they may have. My heart really goes out to that young lad and his family and I prey to god that he pulls through but it's in no way helpful to them having other people jumping to their own conclusions and assumptions and posting them on the internet for all and sundry to read.

 

[John Bumlick]

i can't believe everyone is simply ignoring the main issue here...

do any black people live on Chalky Road?

 

[Postman Pat]

Just so you are aware found out this morning that the young boy in question sadly passed away yesterday. He attended my son's school and played in the same football team.

Thoughts with the family at this sad time I think you will agree.

 

[British Bulldog]

Poor lad, my heart goes out to his family.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

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Varies due to all the normal factors but 100+ is safe in the right conditions

If you are trained correctly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


P.S. all uk motorways are tested for use up to 120mph

They are tested to those speeds because they know idiots like you will do that speed. Dosen't mean your MEANT to go at that speed.

Do you crash into bollards because they have been 'tested' for that as well?

 

[steward 433]

They are tested to those speeds because they know idiots like you will do that speed. Dosen't mean your MEANT to go at that speed.

Do you crash into bollards because they have been 'tested' for that as well?

Just be serious for once

the poor child has died here

 

[SpidersLegs]

Just so you are aware found out this morning that the young boy in question sadly passed away yesterday. He attended my son's school and played in the same football team.

Thoughts with the family at this sad time I think you will agree.

Was it Coldean school? Alot of flowers & shirts etc have been posted on the gates to the school field today.

 

[Al Bion]

Poor boy and how terrible for his mum having witnessed it and no doubt never being able to forgive herself for not grabbing his hand as they got off the bus

 

[cjd]

Such sad news..............devastating for his parents...........R.I.P.

 

[Gritt23]

Poor boy and how terrible for his mum having witnessed it and no doubt never being able to forgive herself for not grabbing his hand as they got off the bus

When you do stop to think about it like that - something I have done at these stories everytime, since becoming a parent myself - it's just so absolutely heartbreaking. That tiny moment in time that you could have so easily said or done something different, but you cant take it back. The images of what happened would haunt you forever.

My heart truly goes out to the poor mother.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

My thoughts are with the family after this tragic accident, terribly sad news - RIP

 

[Shegull]

Sincere sympathy to the family of the young lad and if it was a tragic accident as it seems it might have been then thoughts are with the driver as well. He won't be feeling too happy at the moment either.