WHY does someone always have to die for people to see the obvious?”
The words of road safety campaigner Paul Kerr who is calling on Warwickshire County Council to make urgent improvements.
His plea follows the inquest of Warwick University student Archie Wellbelove, who was killed in Leamington in December 2012 just six days after the council had turned off four in five of the county’s streetlights overnight in a bid to save £500,000 annually – a move which coroner Dr Richard Brittain ruled contributed to the 18-year-old’s death.