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Highly dangerous exit from the estate
Reported via desktop in the Roads and Carriageways category anonymously at 13:08, Fri 30 October 2020
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council less than a minute later
Visibility exiting the Cholsey Meadows estate estate from Rotherfield Road (where the Ox Shed cafe is) is very poor and has lead to a number of side car crash near misses.
The exit joins Reading Road in a curved section (see map). In particular, visibility to the left is almost null since there are high walls and sometimes bins left out in the public pathway. Reading Road is limited to a speed of 30 entering Cholsey, but often cars drive faster in this stretch.
The most common near misses happen since cars leaving the estate are forced to enter the left lane of Reading Road to check for incoming traffic from the right. Since visibility to the right is also poor, often cars have to reverse back into the estate if there is incoming traffic from the left lane. If there is a car behind, this might not possible, leaving the first car stranded in the middle of Reading Road on a lane where cars unfortunately drive faster than they should.
This should be easily mitigated by introducing a convex mirror that points left as one leaves the estate. This solution is already used in Reading Road towards Wallingford to assist exit from another private estate.
Council ref: ENQ20879486
Updates
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Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.
State changed to: Investigating
Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 13:08, Fri 30 October 2020
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We are reviewing old information on Fix My Street and please accept our apologies for the delay in response. The county do not provide or support the use of road mirrors on the highway for a variety of reasons including the image they provide can be misleading in terms of vehicle speed and distance giving drivers a false sense of security, potentially leading to vehicles emerging injudiciously. In the building of the estate the available visibility at the junction would have been a consideration. We do note that Thames Valley Police do not have any injury accidents recorded at this junction, however, they do include the wider stretch of road for the mobile police camera enforcement. If you consider there is still an issue, please create a new report on Fix My Street with any new information. Find out more about highway repairs and how we assess risk at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ residents/ roads-and-transport/ street-maintenance-z/ road-repairs
State changed to: Investigation complete
Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 10:18, Fri 17 December 2021
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.