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‘Somebody’s going to get killed here’ By SCOTT YEOMAN
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hen the Times visited the scene of a minor, single car crash on Cascades Rd in Botany last week, it found residents angry, scared and desperate for action. A white van had lost control negotiating the roundabout on the corner of Aviemore Dr and Cascades Rd. The vehicle left the road, crossed the footpath and came to a stop, on its side, just metres from a house.
The driver of the van appeared unhurt and, apart from some damage to the lawn of the house, the consequences of the crash seemed minor. But an anxious-looking woman was walking up and down the footpath as police spoke to the driver. “In the past few months, lots of accidents have happened on this road,” the mother-of-two, who did not want to be named, explained later. Her letterbox had been replaced
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just days before, she said, after it was destroyed by a car that veered onto her property three weeks earlier. Her husband’s car had been smashed three times while parked in the driveway and another car put a dent in their garage door after it too lost control. She said they had only been living in the house for eight months and already she had seen enough to ban her kids – boys, aged 10 and 5 – from playing in the front. And so a trampoline sits unused
on the front lawn. “Kids can’t play on this road, simple. It’s quite scary,” she said. The woman has contacted Auckland Council several times to report the accidents and has asked for something to be done. She has also asked for a sign to be put up by the roundabout. “But nothing is happening,” she said. Meanwhile, Patrick Toon, who lives next door, said he has been contacting the council for years about the same thing. ➤ Turn to Page 9