Wellesbourne Speed Watch on the look-out for volunteers
PUTTING the brakes on speeding to change driver behaviour is the goal of Wellesbourne Community Speed Watch which reports 34 per cent of those caught on camera actually live in the village.
The group is on the look out for more volunteers and held a recruitment drive at Sainsbury’s Wellesbourne last Saturday.
They now have one confirmed new volunteer and about six or seven more people interested in joining.
“It’s really important to increase the number of volunteers. We currently only have six and we desperately need more. Wellesbourne has fairly straight roads which unfortunately people speed on including the Kineton Road and the road in from Loxley. All we’re trying to do is get people to slow down in the village,” said John Grove, speed watch co-ordinator.
The application process to join the speed watch team and the voluntary work they do is straightforward.
According to John, anyone who applies is vetted by the police team and taken though the necessary safety procedures and given training on a speed gun.
The volunteers work in groups of three and record motorists who are over the speed limit but they must get the registration plate, the model, the colour and the time accurate. It’s recorded manually from the speed gun reading and then an electronic version is sent off to the police speed team in Rugby.
Drivers who break the speed limit for the first time receive a warning letter but if they’re caught three times they will get a visit from the police.
“The speeding can start as early as seven in the morning when I’m out walking the dog and it goes on throughout the day so we do the speed watch purely for the good of the community,” John said.
Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Wellesbourne Parish Council:
clerk@wellesbourneandwalton-pc.gov.uk
