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They're all driving me mad! Shop boss Ian shames motorists on YouTube

Fed-up with reckless and dangerous driving outside his shop, Ian Davies has taken matters into his own hands.

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The father-of-five runs electrical store, Geo. E. Davies in Trysull Road, Wolverhampton - right in the middle of a traffic blackspot.

Now, in a bid to highlight and tackle the problem, the 50-year-old is posting videos from his CCTV camera on Twitter and YouTube.

His Bradmore shop has seen it all - cars overtaking long lines of traffic, motorists driving for up to 100 yards on the wrong side of the road and near-misses on to a roundabout.

One of the most frequent problems he has captured is drivers attempting to beat long queues towards the mini-roundabout to turn right onto Oxbarn Avenue.

Motorists have also been using Mr Davies's shop frontage to drive across to cut out the jams.

"Someone is going to get seriously injured because when you cross a road you don't expect a vehicle to come speeding up on the wrong side," he said.

"I don't want to be the one who gets called out my shop to look at an incident that could have been prevented by installing traffic lights.

"The main problem is nobody knows what they're doing on an island – it is just totally reckless driving."

Mr Davies has caught on camera an average of six incidents per morning since fitting the CCTV in November.

They tend to happen from around 7.40am to 9.10am, during the height of rush hour traffic going into the city centre.

Mr Davies, who took over the running of his family electrical shop in 2012, has notified the police, who have commenced early morning spot checks on the road.

He added: "The council just say 'it's a policing matter' and although the police have been down to enforce the law, ultimately, they can't change the junction.

"It is the junction itself that needs modifying as it is a danger and something serious will happen.

"The other day I nearly hit an oncoming vehicle myself. Traffic can be coming towards them and they don't even care. Something needs to be done before something serious happens."

Mr Davies aims to keep exposing the drivers who do it, by uploading images and videos to the shop's YouTube and Twitter accounts daily.

Wolverhampton City Council said it was aware of the 'traffic infringements' around Trysull Road and Oxbarn Avenue.

Spokesman Paul Brown added: "In recent years we have imposed a regulation order preventing parking on the footpath along Oxbarn Avenue and restricted loading by the mini-roundabout.

"We are considering whether further measures may be possible to address the ongoing problems, however the issues are being caused by inconsiderate drivers who are breaking the law and therefore we would encourage anyone who witnesses traffic infringements - in Bradmore or anywhere else for that matter - to report the matter to police on 101."

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