The A6135 Accident Reduction Group are delighted with the possibility of 'Rule 43 ' recommendations to be made by HM Coroner Christopher Dorries OBE at yesterdays inquest for the triple fatality accident of 25th May 2008 on the A6135 at Hood Hill, Harley.

For immediate release

A6135 Accident Reduction Group Formation

Wentworth and Harley Parish Council (WPC) and Tankersley Parish Council (TPC) with local residents from Harley formed the A6135 Accident Reduction Group on the 22nd September 2008. The A6135, Sheffield Road between Hood Hill and Hoyland Common has seen 15 fatalities from road accidents in the past 30 years alone (including pedestrians). Floods have also been instrumental in at least one local residents death (her home was flood twice in a two week period). Locals all know the road as ‘The Turnpike’ which means ‘old toll road’. Unfortunately its modern classification is a ‘Rural Single Carriageway’. This ‘Turnpike’ carries a large volume of traffic everyday to various destinations in South Yorkshire. The new 50mph limit is still too fast? Three teenagers in May 2008 were the latest tragedy in a long history of fatalities at the Hood Hill bend at the junction of ‘Old Coach Road’-another name showing the age of this road system.

The A6135 Accident Reduction Group Needs Your Help!

The groups aim is to lobby local government to make safety improvements on this stretch of road to reduce further loss of life and injury and also regular and extensive damage to property from car impact and also flood damage

Your Help?

The A6135 Accident Reduction Group needs your stories and accounts of road traffic accidents and flood problems old and new. If you would like to send them via e-mail to the A6135.org there is a link on the website to the website administrator and editor. If you open ‘Google’ and enter A6135.org it will show you the link to the A6135 Accident Reduction Group’s website. Please ‘Bookmark’ this website it is updated at regular periods to keep you informed. Any photographs of road accidents and flooding also welcome for uploading onto the website.

This is a unique opportunity for local residents (or anyone else involved with accidents or flooding on the A6135) to publish their own individual accounts of their experiences. These ‘experiences’ can then be shared with a wide audience and should provide invaluable in showing to the local authority and emergency services what a ‘Black-Spot’ the A6135 really is!. In addition government record keeping systems are inaccurate and incompatible with other databases which do not provide a focused view of the real A6135 accident history.

If anyone is not able to use e-mail to write in or send photographs to the website administrator and editor please send them to me at this address:

A6135 Accident Reduction Group Secretary

2 Wentworth Station Hoyland

Nr. Barnsley

South Yorkshire

S74 0ED

Thank you for your support, your voice really does count! Regards……

Andy Belk, Wentworth Station (TPC Tankersley East)