{"id":180129,"date":"2025-06-13T04:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180129\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:06:12","slug":"villagers-near-bristol-call-for-action-after-fourth-crash-this-year-on-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180129\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers near Bristol call for action after &#8216;fourth crash this year&#8217; on High Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the fourth car written off this year, along with numerous prangs that seem to be a weekly occurrence&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_SG_BGS_12-06-25-warmley_resultJPG.jpg\" alt=\"The aftermath of an RTC on Warmley High Street on June 7, 2025\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The aftermath of an RTC on Warmley High Street on June 7, 2025(Image: Bristol Post submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Residents of a village on the edge of Bristol say they are so fed up with the number of car crashes on their high street that they are getting together a petition to call for action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Neighbours are calling for measures to make High Street in Warmley safer, claiming that \u2018numerous prangs\u2019 are a \u2018weekly occurrence\u2019 there, with speed at least partly to blame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The road was closed again last weekend following a collision between a van and a local resident\u2019s vehicle. Images shared with Bristol Live show police on scene and significant damage caused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The crash happened at 6.30pm on Saturday, June 7, but according to local resident Paul Swindlehurst, it\u2019s just the latest incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The issue villagers have is that Warmley\u2019s High Street is also the main A420 road between East Bristol and Chippenham, so is used by HGVs and has lots of through-traffic round the clock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_SG_BGS_12-06-25-warmley_02_resultJPG.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The aftermath of an RTC on Warmley High Street on June 7, 2025(Image: Bristol Post submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThis was yet another high-speed crash in Warmley on the High Street &#8211; this is the fourth car written off this year, along with numerous prangs that seem to be a weekly occurrence,\u201d claimed Mr Swindlehurst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe residents on the High Street continue to make complaints to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/south-gloucestershire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">South Gloucestershire<\/a> Council. The current and previous MP have been informed about this situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He added that residents are now planning to visit the council with a petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is the fourth car written off this year, along with numerous prangs that seem to be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,285,10302,9731,16,15,32317],"class_list":{"0":"post-180129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-south-gloucestershire-council","14":"tag-traffic-travel","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-warmley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114674085807896857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}