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Car driven over graves in shocking shortcut through cemetery
There were fears when the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial began that roads around the area not in the scheme would see an increase in motor vehicle traffic.
But nobody could have foreseen that Avon View Cemetery would be used as a shortcut.
That is what one driver has done, however, with members of the Friends of Avon View Cemetery group left aghast and tyre marks covering some graves.
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Peter Piper wrote: “Why would you drive over someone’s grave just to save ten minutes?
“I can honestly say it makes me sick.
“One person today decided to go on safari through the cemetery up the public footpaths and out through Richmond Road gate. ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE”
Liz Read added: “I heard about this and it’s really upsetting. There are bollards there and they’ve driven round them.
“It’s such a horrible, cruel thing to do.”
The car was driven over graves during its shortcut through the cemetery – photo: Friends of Avon View
It comes as a group of residents in Barton Hill have once again blocked council contractors as they attempted to install infrastructure as part of the trial.
Deputy council leader Heather Mack and John Smith, interim executive director of the growth & regeneration directorate, were also confronted by angry residents on Avonvale Road on Monday morning.
Main photo: Friends of Avon View Cemetery / Facebook
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