FAMILIES on a Didcot estate fear someone will be killed along their road which has become a rat-run.

Widow Gillian Keats, 54, whose late husband Cllr John Keats pressed for traffic calming, said the 30mph speed limit on Brasenose Road was ignored by motorists.

Mrs Keats claimed the volume of cars, lorries and buses had escalated since last year because drivers were now using Brasenose Road and its continuation into Slade Road to avoid a speed camera in Foxhall Road.

She added that there were occasional serious accidents, but many more minor bumps particularly outside the shops in Brasenose Road.

"The shops' lay-by is close to a blind bend, which is next to the entrance to Stephen Freeman Primary School," said Mrs Keats.

County councillor Terry Joslin wants the highways department to at least carry out a new traffic survey.

He said it would be an uphill struggle to persuade the cash-strapped Oxfordshire County Council to in- vest in traffic calming.

Mr Joslin is pressing the issue again with county council officials at a meeting of Didcot Traffic Advisory Committee at the civic hall on April 6.

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