Holidaymakers to one of Cornwall’s popular beaches have been slammed after causing “absolute chaos” on the roads. Locals in Polzeath, near Padstow, are have hit out at how the visitors drove over the Bank Holiday Easter weekend.
Reg Webber, 78, from Polzeath, said the roads were more dangerous than he’s ever seen. He shared: “I have never seen traffic through the village as dangerous as it was this weekend.”
Cars were left all over the place, he claimed, making it hard for traffic to pass. Mr Webber said visitors seemed to “forget how to be nice and how to follow driving rules.”
He added: “The traffic situation in Polzeath this weekend was absolute chaos, and exceptionally dangerous. Normally parking restrictions would have restricted vehicles parking on the road, but the signs disappeared at the start of the year and it’s been a total free for all.”
Fed-up residents in Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, say they are living in fear of a fatal crash unless rule-flouting drivers are stopped from parking dangerously outside a popular surfing beach. Locals claim the reckless behaviour of inconsiderate motorists has seen 4x4s blocking half the road and buses getting stuck, reports Cornwall Live.
Resident Mike Webber said: “We’ve seen expensive 4x4s strewn across the pavements and blocking half the road, all to save a few quid in the car parks that are 30 seconds away.
“Buses have struggled to make it into the village without several vehicles reversing to allow them access – if a fire engine or ambulance needed to get into the area quickly, they would have no chance.”
Mr Webber added: “The poor parking would be a genuine danger to life, and that’s not factoring in the risk this sort of manoeuvring presents to families with children on foot. At one point, when traffic had ground to a complete standstill, a lady got out of her car and walked through the gridlocked traffic to take on an impromptu traffic management role in a bid to get things moving again.”
He has now called on Cornwall Council to take action and implement double yellow line restrictions in a bid to stop this kind of chaos from happening again in the run up to the summer holidays when the known surfing beach will be expected to be even busier.
There were similar scenes in Looe on Cornwall’s south coast this weekend when drivers reported being stuck on the Millpool Car Park for more than an hour trying to get in or out.
