Your Local Area

Enter your postcode to find local community information schemes and citizens patrols close to you.

Harby: Traffic Matters

Alert message sent 14/01/2021 09:26:00

Information sent on behalf of Leicestershire Police

Dear Residents

Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to work with a colleague and we conducted speed and HGV monitoring in the village at a few locations.

I spent 10 minutes on Canal Lane with the speed gun, during this time 9 vehicles entered the village from Langer and all were within the speed limit. This may have been down to the temporary traffic lights. By standing near to the BT building this allows me to record the speed of those just coming over the bridge. I then moved further from that location to the junction with Colston Lane and monitored traffic in both directions for 15 minutes. During this period 22 vehicles passed by in both directions all within the speed limit. By standing at the Colston Lane Junction this allowed me to record the speed of those approaching the junction with Stathern Lane.

I then spent a further 20 minutes on Colston Lane, during this period 14 vehicles passed in both directions with 2 vehicles contravening the 30mph speed limit. One recorded at 37 MPH, they were from a neighbouring village and the second vehicle recorded at 35. Both of these motorists will receive a speeding advice letter.

During all the time spent on the main road, 4 large HGV's also passed through the village. The companies will receive an advice letter asking them to comply with the weight restrictions if they had no purpose to be in Harby. Moving forward with this issue I have sought support from Neighbourhood Priority Officers to consider stopping HGV's that are seen within the weight restriction and asked if they could spend any downtime between dealing with emergency and priority responses in Harby monitoring and stopping HGV's.

In addition to the above, 6 company advice letters have recently been sent out following information received about habitual companies seen passing through the village.

Kind Regards

PCSO Claire Gray 6541

Message sent by

Claire Gray (Police, PCSO, Melton and Rutland)

Send a reply

Message tag words

Back to previous page

Click here to tweet this message to your followers

@FollowAlertMessages

Discuss this alert message

Please see terms below before using this feature

Please be aware that the facility above is a Facebook service, posting your views will make some of your Facebook information visible to everyone (as with any Facebook activity).

The system administrators (VISAV Limited) monitor the content added. Any misuse or objectionable material should be reported to support@neighbourhoodalert.co.uk.

The views expressed do not represent the views of the system administrators who are VISAV Limited, the Police, Neighbourhood Watch and other Information Provider using this service.