LTN attacks: Oxfordshire Country Council working with police

An article in the Daily Mail referred to the LTN - Low Traffic Neighbourhood - in Divinity Road in East Oxford and said "an elderly man was thrown onto the ­bonnet of a car that drove towards him as he blocked its path.

"He was unharmed but others have not been so lucky.

"Three months ago, another resident was replacing the barriers when four young men jumped from a car, threw him to the ground and beat him up with the plastic bollard they had just removed.

A LTN in Divinity Road last summer (Image: Public)

"He did not want to discuss the attack but a neighbour who saw him the next day said he was ‘covered in bruises’."

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The paper talked to one lifelong resident of Howard Street who had her path out of Howard Street blocked "by a neighbour standing in place of the LTN bollard someone had removed the night before".

"I asked him to move and he told me to p*** off," she says.

"We ended up calling the police, who were in total agreement with me and told him to move on."

A retired IT consultant who lives on Temple Street told the Daily Mail: "Now they can’t turn onto the Cowley Road, we get delivery vans reversing and already a few cars have been scraped."

A LTN in Divinity Road last summer (Image: Public)

A council spokesperson said: "Oxfordshire County Council is working closely with Thames Valley Police and with highways engineers to monitor and respond to incidents targeting low traffic neighbourhood filters."

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This story was written by Miranda Norris, she joined the team in 2021 and covers news across Oxfordshire as well as news from Witney.

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