Speeding on site

Plastic Children?, don’t go there as I expect some C&MC members would complain they are creating noise & acting feral😤😤

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your comments and feedback. When it comes to children and safety for all, the Club is acutely aware of the risks of mixing vehicles and pedestrians on our sites and we take seriously our responsibility to provide a safe environment in which families can enjoy their holidays. We understand that, while the majority of adults and older children are alert to the hazards associated with moving vehicles and can walk and play safely around our sites, younger children may be at a higher risk because they may not have developed 'road sense', hence our previous ‘Hi-5 scheme’, which helped to improve awareness.

The Club’s policy for the speed of vehicles moving on site is set at 5mph. We always encourage wardens to point out speeding to members and they are encouraged to do so in the knowledge that Regional Managers will support them in facilitating difficult conversations.

We also carry out traffic management risk assessments (TMRAs) on our sites.  These TMRAs are done by either the Health and Safety team or Regional Managers and Site Staff and focus on locations which pose particular risks to pedestrians and cyclists, especially children or older members who may move more slowly or can’t hear or see very well.  The team then agrees which safety precautions should be introduced.  The priorities are to encourage drivers to keep their speed to 5mph; to alter the landscaping and layout of each site to give both pedestrians, cyclists and drivers every opportunity to see each other in good time and to create patterns of vehicle and pedestrian circulation which reduce conflicts between drivers and others.  Examples of the precautions we use in our TMRAs include:

• Promoting the principle that priorities are reversed on our sites, so that pedestrians and cyclists have priority over vehicles.
• Asking sites staff to remind members seen speeding of the site rules and the speed limit.
• Having speed humps to slow down vehicles.
• Where practicable limiting the movements of commercial vehicles. We also may place restrictions on the timing of collections and deliveries to avoid periods when the site is busy. 
• Taking particular care to control the movement of contractors’ vehicles on sites by insisting that contractors use site traffic plans to keep vehicle movements separate from our members and staff.
• Using signs and road markings on site reminding drivers of the site speed limit and deliberately copying the format of signs and markings used on the public highway so that drivers can easily recognise them. 
• Marking out pedestrian walkways and zebra crossing points so that pedestrians are actively encouraged to cross roads at the safest point.
• Removing hedges, bushes, trees and fences at the roadside to allow drivers and pedestrians to see each other as early as possible. We also reduce the height of hedges, bushes and fences so they can’t hide people, especially small children, from drivers as they approach a road.
• Wherever possible, we position play areas away from roads which we know are heavily used by drivers to allow children to approach and leave the play area safely.
• Installing pedestrian chicanes and gates, and fencing off paths and pavements around toilet blocks to stop people, especially children, from running into the road.

It should be appreciated that most of these precautions are designed to modify driver behaviour. We know from experience that individuals may be determined to flout our best efforts and still pose a risk to others.  The next focus for us is to try to change driver attitudes and behaviour by changing risk perception and drawing attention to the gap between how slowly members think they drive and what they do in practice.

We welcome constructive discussion with members and ideas on how we could improve conditions on our sites.  This year we are looking for new ideas which will make an impact on speeding and will write about the progress we are making in the Club magazine in July.

Terryandmarieb, if you would like to email communitymanager@camc.com I will forward to the relevant team any concerns you have and speak to the Regional Officer for the site.

In reality, BB, pedestrians and cyclists always have priority because none of us thinks "I’m in a car, I have right of way so I’ll hit em". 

My driving instructor said that over 50 years ago.

In my eyes it is very simple, the Warden is judge, jury and executioner on his site. If he says you are going too fast then you are. If you don't like it then, as has been repeated many times on here before, go somewhere else.

As I said previously one speeding incident receives a yellow card, if you continue to speed a second time you leave the site. 

To ensure complete probity a video ref should be installed on every site👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂

Think of it as Darwinian survival of the fittest. Those with the nous to avoid cars get to pass on their genes.

If you read the OP again that is what the original poster says could very easily have happened, who are we to call her a liar?