Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Beresford Road now?

Anyone know what's happened at the end of Beresford Road? Lots of police, ambulance and one fire engine. Beresford Road is now blocked off at Wightman Road so you can't turn in to it.

(The narrowing of the road on the junction with Green Lanes causes queues and I wondered if someone has got impatient and shot out of the junction when it is not clear).

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Permalink Reply by Libby on July 5, 2015 at 12:45

We live on Beresford - A car that was going too fast lost control, slammed into a parked car and flipped over. Wrote off three cars including his own. Very scary and dangerous. Our road is being used as a rat run! Not to do with the junction this time, but evidence that our road is being used dangerously and too much.

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Permalink Reply by SarahC on July 5, 2015 at 12:49

I walked past the aftermath of this – it must have been going massively fast to flip over in that way.

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Permalink Reply by Libby on July 5, 2015 at 13:02

It is very scary - we have two small children and had someone been in the wrong place at the wrong time they could have been killed. This is real evidence of how badly our road is being misused since the changes to Hewitt Road. I would like to see our road (and really all other Ladder roads) made access only to stop the rat running. Making Turnpike and Green Lanes red routes would help ease congestion on those routes too. The whole thing needs proper planning by the council - these strange ad hoc measures don't work.

I feel a campaign brewing!

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Permalink Reply by Laura on July 5, 2015 at 13:54

Words fail me Really can't understand the mindset of people who drive like that

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Permalink Reply by 26mhcx4vtb0rb on July 5, 2015 at 13:59

Found this on twitter...

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Permalink Reply by Cat Parry on July 5, 2015 at 14:47

I spoke to the guy that was driving behind him and pulled him from his car. According to him, he was doing 20mph until halfway down the road when he suddenly accelerated and started skidding. The driver claims he was having a fit. How he got out uninjured I don't know....
I live on Wightman at the top of Beresford and am constantly appalled by the speed at which people drive down it. I have witnessed countless broken off wing mirrors on vehicles parked outside my house and im not even at home that much! I totally agree that we need to campaign for safer streets.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Stillman on July 5, 2015 at 14:55

thanks for that insight, cat. it makes more sense than a car being flipped by a speed bump more than half way down the road. if the driver did indeed have a fit, then we must all feel great sympathy for him. it must have been terrifying fitting as you're driving. poor man. agreed the traffic drives too fast on all the ladder streets and indeed on all the residential streets in harringay. lets hope the man recovers.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on July 6, 2015 at 8:48

If the driver suffered a loss of control while driving due to a medical condition - if pre-existing there are regulations that cover in what, if any, circumstances he is licensed to drive. If a first-time event, there are ways of getting the DVLA to suspend his licence until proved medically fit to drive in future. Residents' contacts with the police might bear those two situations in mind.