70 accidents on town's one-way system

Seventy recorded accidents have happened on Welshpool’s controversial one-way system since it opened in 2011.

The figures have been revealed by Dyfed Powys Police under a Freedom of Information Act request from Welshpool Town Council.

And police say 18 of the recorded crashes resulted in injuries.

The figures show 19 collisions on the system in its first nine months – four of them involving injury. There were then 10 crashes in 2012, 18 in 2013 and 17 last year. There had been seven this year up to June 11 – although none had resulted in injury.

The statistics are for the main roads on the system – High Street, Broad Street, Jehu Road, Brook Street, Union Street, Mill Lane, Church Street and Severn Street.

Welshpool Town Council is asking the Welsh Trunk Road Agency to consider returning Brook Street and Union Street to two-way traffic and will meet with Transport Minister Edwina Hart in October.

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies and Welsh Government Assembly Member Russell George are backing the council’s call for changes.