Both the Malton & Pickering Mercury and the Gazette & Herald feature cover stories with Sally Roger, head of the Rillington Bypass Group (RBG), concerning her and her children’s narrow escape from severe injury on the day of the serious car crash in August:
Mrs Roger and her two children “were walking to the garage to collect their car when a truck jack-knifed and collided with a car… at the spot where the Rogers would normally be walking on that route. It was only the fact that the children had been to an activity session on the same side of the road as the garage that they weren’t on the crossing when the accident happened”.
The Gazette & Herald article quotes RBG founder Beatrice Robinson on the statistics she has found out about the traffic in the village: “She said that in 1999, official figures showed that 13,500 vehicles a day went through Rillington with as many as 20,000 in the summer months… the latest figures, produced in 2007, show there are 15,300 a day.”
In addition to this, Ryedale’s Sherburn Ward councillor John Raper is quoted saying “Rillington is the only conurbation on a major road leading to a top seaside resort nationally that has not been bypassed”.
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