No action taken after resident calls for road closure in snow

Brimpton resident Kat Blackler, aged 28, reported three cars had crashed into the garden of her property, the Old Post Office in Brimpton Lane, with one grinding to a halt just inches from the grade II listed building.
“It makes you very nervous,” she said. “We were in the room that was the other side of that wall.”
She said that the drivers weren’t being reckless, predicting that the worst of the three had been driving at no more than 10 miles per hour, but that the conditions of the road became so dangerous during the heavy snow that she was worried for the safety of local residents.
“At one point pretty much everybody that was driving along that road was coming off it somewhere,” she said. “We worry about the primary school children and elderly people, people come off [the road] even in the summer.
“The gritting lorries were coming out four times a day and people were still coming off left, right and centre.”
The third accident, in which the driver failed to stop or apologise for crashing through her front fence, was the final straw for Mrs Blackler who contacted the West Berkshire Council out-of-hours helplinebut who told her to instead contact the police, but no action was taken.
She also contacted Thames Valley Police with the same request, but again, no action was taken.
The majority of damage occurred to the vehicles and private property.
No-one was injured in the incidents.