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No new markings for 'free for all' road junction
A fatal crash is "certain to happen" in a Sunbury business park because "lethargic" road chiefs refuse to re-paint lines on dangerous traffic junction.
That's the view of furious firms on the Brooklands Industrial Estate, Brooklands Close, who say Surrey County Council has failed to take action, despite email assurance nearly three months ago.
The situation is so bad that one firm, Kingston Technology, says it has recorded 15 near misses in the past fortnight and its facilities manager Jack Clogg, along with representatives from Engineering Appliances and Edmonds Electrical, are leading a crusade to demand action.
The private estate, home to more than 30 firms, is used as a route by Tesco lorry drivers delivering goods via the store's back entrance, opposite the estate. Retractable bollards were erected at the delivery entrance in 2001 to stop the prevent the public using the route, but they stopped working soon after. And now the estate is being used as a ratrun by drivers, which firms saying is causing chaos - and accidents.
Mr Clogg said: "The junction is a free-for-all and someone is going to get killed, probably an employee on the estate. I have written a number of emails to the council and they just don't want to do anything. It's pure lethargy and a nightmare. All it takes are some lines."
Paul Tidswell, of Engineering Appliances, said: "It's only a matter of time before someone gets killed. Only four weeks ago a car went under a lorry. People think it's a straight-through road but it's a four-way junction. It wouldn't cost much to rectify."
Surrey County Council say the work is on its list of things to do.
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