Might you be willing to sign this petition please?

Highways England?
Just heard this week that the dualling of the A1 north of Morpeth up to Berwick will not start before 2020. The development started in 2006.

I use this road quite often. It has quite a reputation for accidents. Good luck with the petition and best wishes to your daughter.
I've signed it BTW.

Signed.

Signed.

Highways England are going to be the hardest nut to crack - their decisions are based in the number of deaths and serious injuries, not the number of accidents or near misses. My DD has been trying to get across to them that prevention might be a good idea - but they too have tight budgets of course

So it was your daughter who wrote the update on change.org which I received today.
Well done your daughter. Fingers crossed for the meeting with the council.

Well done Luckygirl and Luckygirl Daughter. I really hope that after all the effort put into this campaign there is a positive outcome.

Yes durhamjen - it was my DD who handed it in. The local paper was there and there is a huge amount of support for the changes. Thank you to everyone who helped by adding their names. Let us hope that there will be some improvements to save lives.

The petition was handed in to the council today.
Hope some good comes of it.
2600+ signatures.

Well it's teetering near 2,500 now! And my DD will be in Midlands Today tomorrow; and local radio; and two of the local papers are taking it up.

Now it's over 2,000! My DD and I never dreamt that it would get this far.

Signed ? X

Wow! - it is over 1600 now. I am so glad we started this as the comments that have been added are a sad litany of loss and injury. Let us hope some changes will be made.

I have signed it

646 now!

Many thanks - numbers are growing and I hope it will mean that they cannot ignore it.

Update. My signature has been counted. Just received a confirmation email from change.org

I've signed Lucky but it then brought up a load of other petitions some of which I've signed before so not sure if my signature on yours has been counted. Good luck.

Signed

300 now!

Thanks all.

Done.

275! - there is a huge amount of interest in this and some very sad posts from people who have lost loved ones on this road. The local paper is going to publish a letter about it, and draw attention to the petition in its article on the accident. And change.org has picked this petition out and wants to contact all their punters who live round here and flag this petition up to them.

I have been contacting councillors and relevant MPs all day. Fingers crossed that there is some good result from all this.

150 now! Thanks for all the help.

Signed- that is horrendous