Call for Lawrence Hargrave Drive speed camera

Lorraine Lang lives on a stretch of Lawrence Hargrave Drive at Scarborough where drivers tend to lose control and end up in the front yards of houses lining the road.

The installation this year of guardrails has stopped this from happening, but Ms Lang was still concerned about speeding motorists travelling down Lawrence Hargrave Drive.

She mentioned car clubs who travelled from Sydney as one of the main offenders.

“What they do is send a motorbike through first to make sure there’s no police along the road,” she said.

“Then they ring them up and say ‘right, you can come through’. They tell them to come speeding through, which is what’s happening.”

In a story published in the Mercury last week Heathcote MP Lee Evans said speed cameras may be only option left available.

He said that held the risk that the residents themselves could end up being caught most, just because they were on the road every day.

“Why would us local residents be the ones that would be speeding?” Ms Lang said.

“There is a speed limit, you’re supposed to follow that by law.

“The residents will do the speed limit, that’s great, but put speed cameras up so you can stop everyone else that doesn’t live in the area from speeding.”

Mr Evans said he would take the issue “to the next level”.

“It’s an issue if people are speeding down that part of the road because it’s precarious at the best of times,” Mr Evans said.

“If speed is an issue I’ll have to put it through RMS and the Centre for Road Safety to see if there’s anything we can do further.”