{"id":21724,"date":"2018-12-10T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21724"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:20:02","slug":"calls-for-new-pedestrian-crossing-in-whitchurch-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/calls-for-new-pedestrian-crossing-in-whitchurch-after-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for new pedestrian crossing in Whitchurch after fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whitchurch Councillors today confirmed they have asked Cardiff Council to consider installing a new crossing on Merthyr Road.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The local Conservative Councillor Mike Jones-Pitchard says his colleagues\u00a0put forward the idea at the weekend, after residents expressed concerns about road safety in the area.<\/p>\n

A ninety-four-year-old woman, who has not been named, was hit by a police van when crossing Methyr Road on Saturday evening. She died in hospital the following day.<\/p>\n

A local resident said it \u201craised again with me and a number of neighbours that there is just not a safe place that you can cross [that section of road]\u201d.<\/p>\n

An investigation into the crash has been launched by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.<\/p>\n

But Whitchurch residents say they have been worried about dangerous levels of traffic for many years.<\/p>\n

Abigail Gibbins, who lives off Merthyr Road, says she raised safety concerns with councillors in the past, but no action was taken. She wants a pelican or zebra crossing to connect the paths on Whitchurch Common, which the road cuts through.<\/p>\n

This would sit between a pedestrian crossing further down the road in the common, and a small island close to where the crash happened.<\/p>\n

Complaining about the road, she said: \u201cTraffic in Whitchurch is just getting worse and worse. When this accident happened on Saturday evening the traffic through the estate was absolutely horrendous.<\/p>\n

“They need to look at the whole traffic management system in the local area to see if they can improve it and make it safer for the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

A petition by local residents about the issue is due to be launched this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whitchurch Councillors today confirmed they have asked Cardiff Council to consider installing a new crossing on Merthyr Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[746,743,744,750],"tags":[26,1613,1614,1612,1012,830,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21724"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21779,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724\/revisions\/21779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}