“Our speed limits are ridiculous”, a Reform UK Isle of Wight councillor has said following criticism of speeding drivers by a Green Party representative.
Cllr Stephen Reynolds took to social media after County Hall’s member for Chale, Niton and Shorwell, Claire Critchison, said she would like to see 20 mile per hour limits in both Niton and Whitwell village centres.
In a comment under the story on the County Press Facebook page, the Shanklin Central councillor said it is the ‘wrong easy targets’ that get hit with enforcement and that ‘we were all young once’.
His quote in full was:
“I’m a councillor and it’s the wrong easy targets that get hit with enforcement and our speed limits are ridiculous in my opinion constantly changing on main roads the quality of drivers is a problem and the lack of enforcement with anti social driving that has become a problem a lot taking place by mainland drivers everyone blaming drivers with modified cars remember we were all young once my real beef is driving while unfit due to drugs alcohol now that’s the problem and needs fixing not doing 40 on a main road that has now become a 30.”
At Niton and Whitwell Parish Council, Cllr Critchison said residents breaking the speed limit are ‘not respecting their community’. She said speeding is the issue most frequently raised by residents who ‘so badly’ want to ‘see something done’.
Cllr Critchison said having speed watch data would result in a better chance of an intervention.
Councillors Reynolds and Critchison have been approached for further comment.
That’s all very well, but the snorters and the swillers and the boy racers and the chavs and the feral brats, will all think that it doesn’t mean them
Its so easy to blame speeding motorists, but how often have you read in this publication that the drivers involved in most of the crashes were either drunk or had been taking drugs?
.We all want safer roads on the Island, but persecuting the average motorist for doing 35mph is not the answer!
Get the dangerous motorists off the road, drink and drug driving is the real issue here and is where the Police need to concentrate their efforts!