Neighbours have spoken out on the 'dangerous' drivers who they say treat their road like a 'racetrack'. Residents of Arnot Hill Road in Arnold have said that the area has a speeding problem after a driver collided with a car parked on the street.
One person took to social media to complain about motorists using the road as a 'race track' on March 31. A picture shared on a Facebook community group showed damage to a car's wingmirror, which the poster said had been smashed by a driver.
Residents agreed that there was a problem on the road, with it being used as a 'rat run' by motorists. Hannah Dexter, 51, who works as a beautician, said that her family had moved from the front room to the back of their house to get away from noise created by drivers on Arnot Hill Road.
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"We used to sit in the front of our house and the car noise has made us move to the back because of the racket. It's used as a cut through, we've asked for speedhumps.
"The speeding is mainly at night time, and it's usually young lads treating it like a racetrack. They have the things on their exhaust that make it really loud as well. Trying to cross the road is dangerous. And sometimes getting off the drive is hard too you have to be quick."
Roger Allock, 77, who is retired and lives on Arnot Hill Road, said: "It happens frequently that someone goes too fast down here and knocks something. Takes a lot of wingmirrors off. It's a rat run, it's particularly bad from 5pm to 9pm. Fortunately I have a drive so I can keep my car safe, I had my own car shunted once.
"I don't think many people would want bumps, but we could do with one of those slow down signs that light up. 15 years I've lived here it has got worse recently, definitely."
Retiree Alan Parkin, 72, who has lived on the road for 35 years, added: "People shoot off the island up through here. You see quite a lot of cars parked here being clipped by them. They really do hammer it up here. It is quite dangerous already and it is slowly getting worse."
