Residents living close to a busy hill on the outskirts of a Nottinghamshire town say they are worried for the safety of children due to speeding motorists. People living near Spital Hill in Retford compared the noise to an F1 circuit.
Lincolnshire Live reports that sitting in your living room in an evening sounds like you're listening to a Grand Prix happening outside, according to the residents.
Ron Brown, 72, has lived on the road for 20 years. He told Lincolnshire Live: "I've complained many times. This hill is like a thoroughfare for speeders and nothing's being done whatsoever. It can be like the F1 motorway up here. You hear them all, the cars with the big exhausts and all the rest of it.
"They come here with the three-wheel things without helmets on and they come up here on their motorbikes without their lights on. And no one seems bothered about it. Nothing's being done." Another resident described the drivers as "teens on scrapper bikes," going up and down the road without license plates.
He said that the drivers can be heard at "all hours of the morning" and likened the situation to the cars speeding down Bridgegate. Lincolnshire Live previously reported that shopowners on Bridgegate were 'fearing the worst' would come from bikes speeding down the road.
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A sergeant from Nottinghamshire Police told Lincolnshire Live that the team was doing 'everything it could' to tackle speeding, and Councillor Jim Anderson suggested completely pedestrianising the road. While Spital Hill can be noisy, Mr Brown said he was worried about the risk the speeding cars posed to children and disabled people crossing the road.
"Kiddies cross this road regularly, every day, to get to school," he said. "Kids on their bikes, everything.
"And there are a lot of people in wheelchairs crossing the road. There was a blind lady, at the top, crossing the road with her dog - and she nearly got hit.
"I know it's easy and convenient to go up and down it quickly, but something bad's going to happen. It would be good to see them put up a camera or install some speed ramps - something to just slow the traffic down."
Mr Brown added that he didn't feel the fact it was a hill particularly encouraged speeding, just that it was 'inviting' speeding drivers. He said: "I think it's just a nice, easy piece of road, and they want to go from there to there as fast as they can.
"They'll get so far and then they'll just let it go." Tracy Healy has lived on the road for seven years and said drivers speeding up the hill "at considerable speeds" has been an issue for as long as she has lived there.
She said: "They are speeding and they go quite fast, up and down, up and down. We've got a young grandson and we do worry about the speed the cars go.
"Mostly it's in the evenings when you'll hear them." Ms Healy added that, although it was dangerous, some drivers would be speeding up to climb the hill.
She said: "Some drivers really speed out of the junction coming onto it, but perhaps they have to because of the hill. Some of them will stop after they reach the top, but a lot of them won't.
"And it'll always be the same type of driver." She added: "They just wouldn't be able to stop if someone stepped onto the road, the speeds at which they go."
Nottinghamshire Police has reportedly sent out vans with speed cameras to try to catch motorists, which Ms Healy said was effective. Lincolnshire Live has contacted Nottinghamshire Police for a comment.
