POLICE are clamping down on speeding motorists in Winsford.

PCSO Jay Miles has been monitoring the speed of drivers on Moors Lane following reports of people travelling too fast in the area.

More than twice the number of people died on Cheshire’s roads in 2018 in comparison to the previous year and the majority of those deaths could have been avoided.

Some 46 people lost their lives in road traffic collisions in 2018 and already, in 2019, there have been 23 fatalities on the count's roads – that’s more than one per week.

Investigations into these collisions show that some of the fatalities could have been prevented and that there are five main contributory factors that cause serious road traffic collisions, known as the 'fatal five'.

Speeding is one of the causes along with careless driving, drink and drug driving, not wearing a seatbelt and using a mobile phone.

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Road users who commit one of the fatal five offences are far more likely to be involved in a fatal collision than those who do not.