Heather has contacted police and landowners demanding that they take rapid action to end a spate of accidents and near misses around Chirbury.
Heather said “We have a serious problem here with a number of tractor drivers who have been contracted to move silage from fields around Chirbury to Montgomery – I believe. Normally nobody objects to farmers getting their crops harvested but these gentlemen have been grossly irresponsible in their driving leading to a spate of incidents. As well as speeding through Chirbury they have been using their mobiles whilst driving and failing to stop at the road junction in the village. All this whilst towing trailer loads of silage. The final straw came yesterday (17th JUne) when a tractor tried to squeeze by a lorry on a narrow stretch of the Montgomery Road(B4386) leading to a collision. Fortunately nobody was hurt but the road was blocked for some time.
“We have also had a spate of near misses including one young girl who avoided being hit by inches.
“I have already contacted the police and am pressing the landowner to get a grip on his contractors before someone is seriously hurt.”