Friday 3 December 2021

Woodmere Avenue In Watford, UK,

is becoming famous world-wide,


all because of a Ring doorbell facing the road, where a vehicle width restriction island with bollards has been placed, photograph Google street view, Mr. Vigor a local resident caught a series of crashes on camera. He started posting them on a dedicated Facebook group, and before long compilation videos of car crashes were doing the rounds online and getting picked up by major news outlets,

“I totally get why some people find it funny because it is not outside their house. I didn’t want it to become a joke because I want the thing removed,” Tim Vigor told the Watford Observer. “I’ve had a few spats because people are saying the bollards are an inanimate object, which is true, but the whole design is wrong.” “The width restriction is clearly signposted both on Woodmere Avenue and on adjoining roads. Provided your vehicle isn’t wider than seven feet, you can access the road,” a press statement read. “To put this in perspective, seven-foot is wider than the entrance to a normal garage. Several thousand cars use this road on a daily basis without any problems so we have no plans to make changes to the posts on Woodmere Avenue unless local councilors ask, through the Joint Member Panel, for alterations to be made.”

with a reported 12 crashes caught on camera by Tim Vigor’s doorbell camera in the last six weeks alone, the Woodmere Avenue width restriction is a bigger nuisance to motorists than it ever was, above the most recent crash compilation,

as it happened a film crew arrived and guess what? whilst there they filmed an 'incident!', well I suppose this is one way to get Watford noticed on the world stage!


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