By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A HALLAM grandfather has implored Casey Council to install more speed bumps in Hinrichsen Drive, after a car ploughed through his man’s front fence on Tuesday afternoon.
It’s the second time in three years that a car has crashed through Basil Harrison’s front fence in Appilla Close, a dead-end street which runs off Hinrichsen Drive.
Mr Harrison was sitting on his bed using his computer tablet when he heard a “big bang”.
Mr Harrison thought it was thunder but when he looked out the window he saw a car had reversed through his fence while trying to do a U-turn, around 2.45pm last Tuesday afternoon.
“My grandkids had just moved from the driveway,” Mr Harrison said.
“They could have been killed.”
Mr Harrison said it was constantly hard to sleep at night because his street was always used as a playground for hoons.
“It’s the worst road in the world,” he said.
Council last year installed a speed bump in Hinrichsen Drive, near Keppel Drive, after a 100-signature petition was present to the City of Casey last year.
But Mr Harrison said more were desperately needed near the turn off to his street.
City of Casey Acting Manager Transport Anitha Ajay said the council will “investigate” the potential installation of additional “traffic calming measures” in Hinrichsen Drive, following consultation with residents “later this year”.
“Council has previously identified one section of Hinrichsen Drive where design works were undertaken and a speed hump was installed on the northern approach to the intersection of Hinrichsen Drive/Keppel Drive,” Mr Ajay said.
“A report on the LTM Program and review of locations for traffic calming measures was considered by the council at its meeting on 19 August 2014.
“Hinrichsen Drive has been identified as a location which warrants consideration of treatments through the Local Traffic Management (LTM) Program. “
