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A city councillor said a speed sign which captured a car travelling at more than 100mph near a primary school was probably 'just a glitch'. A speed sign apparently captured a car travelling at more than 100mph in Millwood Drive in Warndon Villages in Worcester - but one councillor believes the reading is more likely to be a glitch as reaching such high speed on that road would be 'physically impossible'. The incident happened at 11.
49am on March 13 when the vehicle was captured by a speed sign travelling at 101.5mph towards Plantation Drive close to Trotshill Way, not far from The Lyppard Grange Primary School and the Tesco store. Stephen Hodgson of Warndon Parish Council highlighted the issue, saying it was the highest speed ever recorded by the four signs in Warndon Villages which capture data but not details about the car such as the registration.
However, Ed Kimberley, a Labour city councillor for Warndon and Elbury Park said: "Those speed monitoring signs aren't terribly reliable in my experience and we had a discussion about this when I was on the parish council. "I made the point then as I would now - it's physically impossible to reach a speed like that on the local roads. The speed signs are a handy tool for reminding drivers to stick to the speed limit but the data they collect must be taken with a pinch of salt.
"Stephen is acting in good faith, I'm sure, but I think it's far more likely this readout is a glitch than an accurate record. RECOMMENDED READING: Injured man 'covered in blood' found by police outside furniture shop RECOMMENED READING: 'Out of control' house party sees gangs of teenagers block street and police called RECOMMENDED READING: Anger as driver speeds at over 100mph in Worcester street near school "I have seen errors myself with those signs, where they make very inaccurate estimates of people's speed. They can be easily confused when they have multiple vehicles in their field of view, and they have had problems with the batteries on numerous occasions.
"And I think this all distracts from a problem that exists on a much larger scale. Having had traffic assessments done by local police around Ambleside Drive and Tetbury Drive, what we've learned is that the problem locally isn't necessarily that people are travelling at unlawful speeds. "In most cases the problem is that people are doing the speed limit, but 30mph is too fast to be safe.
Typical road conditions in many parts of Worcester make it unsafe. It is typical for roads to be narrow, double parked, have blind corners, or pedestrians crossing in unusual places.".
