A scheme to cut down speeding and improve safety for
car insurance customers in Norfolk by planting trees on the side of roads is seeing success.
Lines of trees and hedges have been planted outside Martham, Horstead, Mundesley and Overstrand to create a more crowded effect on drivers' peripheral vision, prompting them to slow down, the Eastern Daily Press reports.
As a result of the changes, car insurance customers have been slowing down by an average of two to three miles per hour travelling into the villages.
The scheme could now be applied to other villages across the country after findings of the £70,000 trial were revealed.
"I would say the whole thing is first class and has been a double bonus for Martham," chairman of Martham Parish Council Mike Huke told the newspaper.
"Not only has it reduced speeding it has softened the landscape and has attracted more wildlife."
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