SPEEDERS will be in the sights of Dymock residents who want to put the brakes on fast-moving traffic in their village.

They are campaigning for digital signs to be put up and for the number of heavy goods vehicles using the road to be reduced.

A speed watch group will also be set up, which will regularly monitor vehicles coming into the village with police equipment.

Resident Bob May said they were pressing forward on measures that would tame the traffic on the B4215 running through Dymock.

"People driving with no consideration through a village where children are going to school is a disaster waiting to happen," he said.

"The main problem is the approach to the village from the north which is a fast, straight road going downhill into a 30mph zone.

"We were measuring speed with the community police officer the other day and we clocked someone doing 60mph who hadn't bothered slowing down at all."

Half of the funding for the digital Vehicle Activated Sign has already been raised and the rest is due to come from Gloucestershire Cou-Council.

Bob hopes the sign, which will flash up motorists' speeds as they enter the village, will be up within the next six weeks.

Local firms will also be contacted to see if drivers of large commercial vehicles can be encouraged to use the A417 instead of driving through Dymock.

"Many residents have to step out into the road to see if it's safe to cross and they don't get much warning that something is coming," said Bob.

"And when the children are going to school they have to wait in an area where there is no pavement.

"We can't carry on like we have been – there's got to be action on this."

The plans received unanimous support at a meeting between parish councillors and residents at the Beauchamp Arms pub last Tuesday.

Bob said issues regarding the VAS sign and lorries in the village had been passed on to the parish council, who would act on behalf of the residents.