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Thursday 22nd January: Another HGV has got stuck in Hambledon.

A lorry having delivered to the pub tried to reverse into the school drive in order to turn round and then slipped forward into the wall of the cottages opposite. In the meantime another lorry having been directed to Cranleigh by his satnav had arrived at Hydestile crossroads and had to turn right through the village.



A tractor borrowed from Prof Bailey was used to tow the jammed lorry into a position where it could be extricated. I spoke to the police on site and they promised to add their weight to our campaign to keep HGV's (not delivering within the village) out of Hambledon. Derek Miller 17.00hrs

I was nearly forced off the road on two occasions by tractors and lorries at the corner of Watersmeet. I had to break suddenly and my two dogs fell onto the floor of the car. I was also nearly taken off the road last Saturday by a tractor coming around the bend at Placewood farm. I will put these comments on the suggested website. It is only a matter of time before an accident happens in our beautiful village.

Thanks for your post Lesley.

Salt Lane was blocked again this morning by a lost 40 tonne HGV. He, like most of the stuck lorries, had come from the A3 via Milford heading for Cranleigh. He gets to the Hydestile crossroads and sees the signs stating "Unsuitable for HGVs" if turning North to Godalming.... so his natural, and not unreasonable, inclination is to go another, unprohibitted way - East up Salt Lane (or South into Hambledon) - both are near impassable, yet there are no signs indicating this. 300 yards up Salt Lane he wisely tried to turn around (with help) and travel back to the A3, and caused a log jam of traffic which was cleared by two residents marshalling the cars that were reluctant to back up.

So the question is what can be done to avoid this? The problem is the Highways Department signs. At Hydestile it is far too late to tell trucks to turn around and return to Milford (there is no route for them to proceed down other than turn around). Currently the half-baked and confusing signs there face the Southbound and East bound traffic, and contradict each other by prohibiting turns Eastbound and Northbound respectively. The signs need to be at a point early enough for them not to need to proceed any further, and where there is a turnaround space. I think that is the junction of Station Road and Tuesley Lane, OR at the Milford Crossroads before they enter Station Road. GPS is not entirely blameless, but proper signs would probably over-ride any drivers that blindly follow their GPS. Can we lobby the highways department?