LETTER: Illegal A-boards are real danger
Ageing means the number of us on scooters is growing fast. But on a recent outing there were 12 advertising A-boards blocking the pavements in our High Street, despite a local by-law forbidding them.
Trivial? No! Accidents will happen if we scooterists are forced to the edge of the path, go an inch too far and topple into the traffic.
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Hide AdBoth parish and district councils say it is not their responsibility to enforce the by-law and passed the buck to County Highways, to whom I made a formal complaint recently – but the danger remains.
A legless friend last year did get pitched into the road avoiding tree roots; luckily no traffic hit her but I believe it hastened her death.
What’s the point of having by-laws if shops and pubs ignore them and nobody enforces them?
JOHN DAVEY
Church Lane, Henfield