VANDERBIJLPARK – Business owners and employees in the town’s industrial area (CE6) are concerned about the increase in car accidents in the area. Some of them shared their concerns with Sedibeng Ster and attribute the collisions to the lack of warning signs painted on the roads.
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“Although there are road signs indicating stop and yield at the intersections, there are no warnings painted on the roads. People who don’t drive here often don’t know the roads and sometimes notice the warning signs too late. They then drive over stop and yield signs without realising it. If there were warnings painted on the roads, they would have known in time that there was a stop or yield ahead,” says one of the concerned business people.
Apparently, it is especially motorists who join from the smaller side streets of CE6, who realise too late that they are already inside the intersection with Edison Boulevard. The latter is a particularly busy road, so motorists who do not stop at the intersections are at great risk of colliding with oncoming vehicles.
Kobie Cochrane, an employee of PG Glass, says their offices overlook an intersection like this – the one between Edison Boulevard and Fraser Street. “There are countless accidents here. Motorists come off the Barrage Road at a fairly high speed to turn into the industrial area and do not realise that there are stop and yield signs. The responsible authorities would do everyone a big favour if they had warning signs painted on the roads,” she says.
In a recent collision at this intersection, a delivery truck and a vehicle from EJ Auto Body Repairs collided close to PG Glass. Sedibeng Ster could not reach the parties involved for comment, but at least one person was injured in the accident and taken to hospital by ambulance.
* Sedibeng Ster forwarded CE6’s request for the installation of painted road signs to the local traffic department.
