Concerns about car meets and speeding motorbikes raised in Peterborough
Residents have raised fresh concerns about speeding cars and car meets in Werrington.
On Saturday evening (March 14), large number of residents were left angered due to the fact at 10pm and well into the night, loud engine noises could be heard from the Werrington Parkway between Dukesmead and Glinton.
Residents reported the noises lasting well past 1am. There were also noticeable tyre marks left along a number of the roundabouts on the Werrington Parkway.
Police confirmed that they were called to two separate car meets in the area on Saturday night but that they did not find any vehicles upon arrival.
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police said: “We received a report at about 8.45pm on Saturday, 14 March of a car meet at a car park on Lincoln Road, Peterborough. All vehicles had left by 9.30pm.
"At about 10pm on Saturday, 14 March, we received reports of a car meet in Ivatt Way, Westwood. Officers were due to be dispatched to the scene, but all vehicles left.”
Werrington ward councillor John Fox also raised concerns about motorbikes speeding along the Werrington Parkway and urged residents to report such incidents, every time they happen, to the police to allow them to build up an accurate picture of the issues.
He said: “We do have a problem with motorbikes- you hear it quite often, especially at the weekends- roaring down the roads. They use the roads between Glinton roundabout into town as a race track. I’ve heard that several times during the day and they are going incredibly fast. They have to be doing 70 or 80mph and that is just crazy.
"We have our regular police surgeries and we have raised it for them to look into.
"The most important thing I can stress is that people need to report it to the police as it happens. It it is only reported to us councillors, we will have to pass it onto the police ourselves without knowing all of the specific details, which is far less helpful.
"The police will then have a record of what is happening and if they get a regular large number of calls then they will have to prioritise the issue. They have to work on statistics and prioritise the workload according to their staffing levels.
It people are not phoning it in, they are going to think that it is not a serious problem as it is not happening that often.”