Councillors are asking Chief Constable Brian Moore why nothing is being done to book hundreds of drivers who break speed limits in Pewsey.
They are particularly concerned about drivers speeding along Marlbor-ough Road past St Francis School where two years ago the PTA raised a petition of more than 2,000 signatures asking for the limit to be enforced.
Headteacher Baz Brown said: “It is going to take somebody to be killed before anything is done.”
Parish councillors were told automatic speed checks showed that 5.8 per cent of drivers by St Francis School were ignoring the 40mph limit.
In Milton Road 22.3 per cent, or one in five drivers are breaking the 30mph limit. At Prospect on the A345 Marlborough-Pewsey road, close to the Wilcot turning, 2.8 per cent of drivers were breaking the 40mph limit. South of the village centre on Swan Road, 5.1 per cent of drivers risked prosecution.
However, parish councillors heard, no registration numbers had been recorded as the survey was a statistical one.
Coun Peter Deck asked last Tuesday’s council meeting: “What we want to know is what are the police doing about this?”
Coun Phil Stevens, who has been campaigning to get speed limits in Milton Road enforced, said: “The chief constable has a duty of care to do something.”
At the suggestion of Coun Bob Woodward, a magistrate, the council, which is chaired by Alex Carder, agreed to write to the chief constable, Wiltshire Police Authority and Pewsey Area Board.
A Wiltshire police spokesman said that, on receiving a complaint, the chief constable would ask the local commander to investigate.
