Residents of the Sint-Oedenrodeseweg in Best are tired of the speeders there. On Saturday night, a driver crashed his car into a pole and eventually ‘parked’ his car vertically. The car then caught fire. Miraculously, the driver was unharmed. But waiting for an even worse accident, says Harrie Aerts, who lives close to the place where the car crashed.
The Sint-Oedenrodeseweg is a road with many bends between Best and Boskant. The maximum speed is 60 kilometers per hour, but it is therefore regularly ignored.
“It is a thorn in our side that people drive so fast here,” says Harrie. He says it sometimes goes faster than a hundred kilometers per hour. According to him, the road is popular with motorcyclists to accelerate. The road is also suitable for this, because it is a priority road without thresholds or speed cameras.
Harrie’s son Stefan Aerts was in bed on Saturday night when he woke up from a huge bang. When he looked out, he couldn’t believe what he saw. A car was propped up against a pole and caught fire moments later. The driver, remarkably bare-chested, was looking for his phone. Stefan called 911.
Both father and son Aerts believe that something should be done to adjust the road so that motorists and motorcyclists no longer use it as a race track. “Think of speed bumps or a speed camera,” says Stefan. His father expects that local residents will soon ask the municipality of Best for measures to slow down traffic.
Images from Saturday night: