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Roundabout at junction of Bowerdean Road and underwood road
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 9753952.
Since living in Lower Furney close since last year, I have had at least 15 “near misses” when pulling out or pulling in to underwood road (to access lower Furney close) where people do not stop to give way to the right as you should at a roundabout. I believe the signage for the roundabout is poor, the marking on the road itself needs repainting and perhaps speed bumps need to be put in to slow people down on their approach. The most recent incident I was turning right at the roundabout into underwood road (approaching from top of bowerdean) and a lorry coming up bowerdean completely ignored the roundabout and would have ploughed into me had I not braked. It’s not an occasional problem, it happens all the time and the speed at which people travel down Bowerdean I think it will cause a serious accident one day.
Updates
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This has been passed to the Highway Officer to investigate, they will carry out an inspection within the next 10 working days.
All our roads are subject to safety inspections, and this includes identifying any road signs that are badly damaged or degraded so we may already have a job raised to resolve it, if this is the case we will update you that it is a duplicate job/enquiry.
If we were not aware of this issue, we will update you on what action will be taken, this may include adding the road markings to a package of works for the location to be completed at a later date.
There may also be occasions when the issue reported will not be repaired as it has been classified as a minor defect and does not pose any risk to either the safety or the integrity of the highway, these are called minimum recording levels as specified in our Highways Safety Inspection Policy in these cases no action will be taken.
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Update
We have reviewed the issue reported and have amended the category; this will ensure your report is directed to the most appropriate team at the council.
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Update
A Highways Technician has investigated the issue and has forwarded the details of this enquiry to the Road Safety Team.
Their emails address is RoadSafety@Buckinghamshire.gov.uk
Regards Buckinghamshire Council
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