Lybster woman's plea for drivers to slow down through villages on NC500
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More than 400 people have signed a Caithness woman's petition protesting about speeding traffic on the North Coast 500.
Rachael Smart from Lybster started the petition in a bid to highlight the dangers of vehicles speeding through villages on the NC500 route – and claimed locals as well as visitors were to blame.
"People should slow down through villages but [they] still think it's ok to do 60/70 mph or more," she wrote.
"So many of our pets are being hit and dying – like my cat – and so many more animals because vehicles are not slowing down. We have children crossing the roads, people need to slow down, it's not a race track. It's not just visitors, it's locals too.
"The speed limit signs are not enough for people, we need more in villages to stop people speeding and so no one gets hurt.
"First of all this isn't just about my cat getting hit by someone's vehicle and left to die. This is more.
"I have lived on the main road going through Lybster for 11 weeks only, and in this time I have seen so many near misses outside my house – animals, people and other vehicles.
"Vehicles are killers with irresponsible drivers that will not take their time through our villages, our home. All it takes is to read the speed limits and do the speed limits, but this is not enough for some people. We need to put a stop to speeding vehicles or next time someone is going to be saying goodbye to member of their family and not, to some, JUST a cat.
"Please share with everyone you know on the NC500 route, every town and village we need to put a STOP to this now."
The petition can be found at www.change.org/p/highland-council-stop-vehicles-speeding-through-villages-on-the-nc500-route
