Injury fears as No Entry signs ignored

Jan 9 2009 by Henryk Zientek, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Injury fears as No Entry signs ignored

PEDESTRIANS could be injured because motorists ignore new No Entry signs on a Huddersfield town centre street, it is said.

The signs have been installed at the top of Half Moon Street, preventing traffic coming along Upperhead Row from turning left and cars emerging from the bus station multi-storey car park from going straight ahead.

Now Crosland Moor woman Bernice Holroyd says she has almost been knocked down twice crossing Half Moon Street by drivers who hadn’t seen the signs or had ignored them.

She said: “I often cross there on my way to the shops.

“I first noticed the signs two weeks before Christmas, but I have nearly been knocked down twice in a fortnight.”

On the second occasion she remonstrated with the driver, who denied that the No Entry signs existed.

She added: “I was talking to one of the taxi drivers about it and he said he hadn’t realised the signs were there.