AFTER work I make my way home down Coppergate. Every evening, at least one car jumps the lights on Parliament Street and cuts across the junction with Piccadilly. But this evening took the biscuit.
Fifteen yards from the Coppergate lights I see them turn green. A car is across the junction, coming out of Parliament Street and not being able to turn due to the traffic going up Coppergate; not a problem, enough space to get by.
Then two cars, one with children in the back, come flying out of Parliament Street. They're going fast because they know they've jumped the lights.
The light's bad and the roads are very wet, but they don't care.
Someone will be injured or die at this junction unless the police or the council decide to take some form of action. Simple as that.
Scares me every day and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Andrew Tessier,
Rose Street, York.
Updated: 09:58 Monday, October 18, 2004
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