The Stage 1 Road Safety Audit, submitted by Aggregate Industries to support its planning application for a cattle crossing across the B3174 Exeter Road, to facilitate its plans for a quarry, claims to:
...review the road safety aspects of the proposed highways proposals associated with the proposed construction of a new farm access and modified cattle crossing arrangements at Straitgate Farm in Ottery St Mary. 1.10
You might expect such a review to assess the accidents that have happened on this road – given that many have occurred in the very location proposed for the crossing, one even involving the telegraph pole that features on the front cover of the RSA itself.
So – given Aggregate Industries' consultants supplied a brief to the auditors which apparently included "collision data" – isn’t it strange that the company’s Road Safety Audit makes no reference to these:
Isn't it strange – considering ALL the above occurred in the very same location proposed for the crossing?
