• THE ROADS OF SOUTHERN SCOTLAND are littered with examples
24th August 2000, Page 38
24th August 2000
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of timber hauliers accidentally shedding loads and narrowly missing passing traffic. But in April, on the A7 south of Langholm, a Peugeot 205 was hit and the elderly couple inside was killed.
A police investigation into the accident involving a vehicle from Selkirk-based forestry contractor Elliot Henderson is still continuing, but for many the only way to prevent a repeat is to ban cross-loading, where logs are piled at right-angles to the road on flat-beds.
John Dinwoodie, a councillor on Dumfries and Galloway Council, describes cross-loading as "more or less a death trap" for residents living along the A7 and the B6357, the main links for Europe's biggest man-made forest at Kielder.
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Dumfries and Galloway Council
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John Dinwoodie, Elliot Henderson
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Selkirk