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Relief as HA investigates secrets of killer road
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SUFFOLK OPERATORS have welcomed the Highways Agency's promise to investigate the safety of the A14 following a series of acci dents on what they are calling a killer road.
The agency will work with groups including Suffolk police and the Freight Transport and Road Haulage Associations to see what improvement can be made.
Over the past four years 16 people have been killed on this section of the A14; more than 1,000 people have been injured.
A spokeswoman for the Highways Agency says a similar forum was set up in Cambridgeshire last year: "There have been a number of truck accidents over the past few weeks. The forum will enable us to bring all the relevant parties together so that we can bring forward safety initiatives such as better signage and white lining."
Barry Harvey,commercial direc tor at Bury St Edmunds-basec Stennetts Transport, says its 2: trucks use the route every da.) "There is a particular problen between Cambridge and Hunting don. The road simply can't cop with the amount of traffic using it.'
Earlier this year John Bridge chief executive of Cambridge shire's Chamber of Commerce called on the government to pres ahead with long-awaitei improvements.
• Cambridge MP David Howartl has suggested putting more freigh on the railways to reduce tit number of truck accidents on th overstretched A14.