WELLINGTON Town Council has agreed to join a scheme which could put the brakes on drivers and help prevent accidents and injuries.

Local councillors heard on Tuesday (April 3) that Somerset County Council had stopped providing its community speed indicator device service to parish and town councils.

It meant that the devices – known popularly as SIDs and which flash up the speed motorists are doing and to tell those going too fast to slow down – and regularly installed at Tonedale, North Street and Rockwell Green, would no longer appear.

But now County Hall is looking again at SIDs and providing the devices at a cost of £100 per installation.

Town councillors agreed that they should get involved with the new scheme as the SIDs did provide good data about speed on some of Wellington’s key roads.

Cllr Andrew Govier said: “They do give us factual information about speeding as people say to us that cars are going along at 85mph and we know they actually aren’t.

“This might save an accident from happening and will be money well spent.”

The news came as the results of the last SID readings, taken between February 12-26, 2018, in Tonedale, revealed that the speeds recorded were not as bad as feared and so no further action would be taken – although some people felt the device should have been placed at a different location along the road.

For the full story, see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.