Dredging makes road dangerous

RESIDENTS living on a road by the side of the Kennet & Avon Canal have told it is dangerous as dredging is causing the sludge to spill on to the main A34 in Newbury.

Four accidents have occurred in a short space of time, with the latest causing the death of the driver of a Ford Transit pulling a trailer, that landed in a ditch, with no other vehicle involved.  Last week it was a car that spun off the road hitting a wall.

Warning

Work is underway dredging the canal by the side of the road, with the sludge spilling on to the carriageway.  Signs have been erected by the side of the road warning of the hazard.

British Waterways has been quick to distance itself from the incidents, though its contractor is undertaking the dredging, by claiming that the road is swept four times a day and that there are warning signs.