IMPACT-tested, heavy duty safety bollards are to be put up at an entrance to Bridgnorth’s historic Town Hall following a horrific smash in which 14 people were injured in April.
Minor damage was caused to the hall and a plastic bollard ripped out at the Northgate end of the building during a Friday market.
The town council agreed on Tuesday to spend £3,470 plus VAT for two new heavy duty bollards. Locum town clerk Anne Wilson said that the bollards would be fixed ones and were recommended by Shropshire Council, while two more collapsible ones would be erected at the Listley Street end of the building. The bollards will be checked annually.
Other improvements will include ensuring that stalls do not extend beyond the bollards and ‘market set up/breakdown’ signs being put up at each end of the hall when the market is being formed or being cleared.
The weekly Friday and Saturday markets resumed the week after the accident which happened on April 16 when a silver Mitsubishi car driven by a man in his 70s, who was not named, reversed out of a High Street parking space and then careered forward into the stalls.