Tilburg plans no new measures on Bredaseweg after crash, ten years after fatal accident
After a rented BMW slammed parked cars into a house and a café on Tilburg's Bredaseweg, the municipality says it sees no extra measures now and mainly calls for enforcement.
A rented German BMW M5 hit two parked cars and a lamppost on the Bredaseweg in Tilburg at about 5:30 on Sunday morning, in the night from Saturday to Sunday. The parked cars were pushed into a house and the café The Gillmore Inn. Nobody was injured. The municipality says no extra measures are coming, and that no physical changes have been made to this section of the road since a fatal accident in 2016.
In 2016 a couple from Rijen was killed in front of the café. A spokesperson for the municipality said: "On this section of the Bredaseweg no physical changes have been made to the layout of the road since the accident in 2016."
The municipality says it did look at possible measures. It found that speed on the road "requires attention", but that speed bumps and other interventions are difficult to implement. It gives two reasons. The Bredaseweg is an important bus route, so speed bumps and similar measures must not get in the way of buses. And some speed-reducing measures cost parking spaces, while parking pressure in the area is already high.
According to the municipality, measurements between the Ringbaan-West and the Parkring show that 85 percent of drivers go at most 52 km/h. A relatively small group drives faster, and the municipality says this group causes the greatest risks. Such reckless driving cannot always be prevented with speed bumps or other physical measures, it says, and it mainly calls for enforcement.
The municipality says residents' concerns are known and that complaints about nuisance and speeding come in regularly. It also says relatively few accidents happen on the road given the amount of traffic it carries each day.
Does the Bredaseweg need action now?
- Lydia de Roij, resident
- "It is almost a racetrack. You can hardly cycle or walk normally here."
- Mike Landveld, owner of The Gillmore Inn
- The municipality must act: "They drive far too fast here."
- Municipality of Tilburg
- No extra measures now; points mainly to enforcement.
In the longer run the speed limit on this section will drop to 30 km/h, the municipality says. The road would then be redesigned so that drivers actually keep to it. It describes the timing as the "medium term".