PROTESTERS campaigning for pedestrianised streets were confronted with an angry ‘mob’ of drivers after they blocked cars from passing through a prohibited street.

Three women from the Oxford Pedestrians Association staged their protest at Oriel Square on Saturday to stop cars illegally passing through the road to avoid the functional traffic cameras on the High Street.

Bollards there are meant to rise between 7.30am and 6.30pm, only being lowered for emergency vehicles and other vehicles with permitted access, but have been broken for ‘about four years’.

WATCH: Angry 'mob' of drivers confront Oxford activists

One car tried to drive into one of the protestors.

This is what our readers had to say about the situation:

CHRISTOPHER BENTON: “Show me driver entitlement at its finest

“Normally a bollard here, try arguing or driving at one of those and see how you get on.”

MARK MURFETT: “Well done ladies.

“Next time you do this I am happy to come down and offer to help.

“Cars are prohibited from driving through this point just as they are from driving through this point, just as they are from driving the wrong way up a one way street - which I have seem some idiot do in Little Clarendon Street last year.”

TONY MELCER: “The protestors must have a boring life if all they have to worry about are people driving cars down a public road.”

OWEN MCKNIGHT: “They are stopping people breaking the law.

“I think they are heroes.”

BEN SHORT: “Human uses one tonne lethal weapon to intimidate pedestrian.

“I think the only option here is to go back to a time when every car had to follow a walking person, lest they went quicker than a horse.

“Safety first people.”

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LAURA SIMPSON: “It says the road is prohibited and not legal to drive down it.

“So they shouldn’t even be there.”

SHANE KIM DAVIS: “Get out the way then silly person.”

DANNY YEE: “The people breaking the law were the ones driving cars through no entry signs and using them to threaten people.

“Can they be fined for coming up with such unimaginative excuses for breaking the law?”

TONY BRETT: “If the drivers are ignoring a prohibition sign then not stopping is actually what’s illegal.

“Very good that the protestors were helping people to obey the law.”

ANDREI ANDREI: “Call the police and let them apply the law, those people obviously have nothing else better to do.”

INES AFFCHEN: “People have the right to protest, which the OxPA folks did.

“People by law have no right to drive down a street that is prohibited to drive down.”

SUSHILA DHALL: “This is a pedestrian square, we were not breaking the law, but standing up for the law.

“We care about air pollution and public space.”

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ALEX NICOLAOU: “’Oxford Pedestrian Association - key word ‘pedestrian.

“Stick to the sidewalks like you are supposed to and let motorists use the roads they have an absolute right to be using.

“In the states this is classed as ‘jaywalking’ and the person on foot would have been in the wrong after any incident.”

CHRISTOPHER BENTON: “Except they have no right to use this road - its restricted.”

DENNIS MCSWEENY: “So many angry car drivers, they forget the responsibility they have while driving a vehicle.”

APRIL JONES: “Who are the snowflakes?

“The people bothered that drivers were breaking the law, or the people incensed they were being made to keep it?”

JAMES SPARKS: "Some people do think they are above the law.

"One of the protesters featured in your rag previously for refusing to fill in the census.

"Still, obedience to the law is free desire."