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'Someone will be killed if something isn't done about speeding drivers outside my home'A local resident says he has submitted more than 39 videos of evidence to the police, but no action has

been takenNewsShaurya Shaurya20:53, 02 Jun 2025Updated 10:44, 03 Jun 2025Watch as cars speed past a busy residential road in Llanelli A man living next to a busy residential road in

Llanelli has described it like as an “absolute racetrack” as drivers continue to drive at dangerously high speeds. The resident said that despite complaining to the police as far back as

August 2024, and even after submitting numerous videos of evidence — nothing has improved.

"It's absolute madness," says Leroy Hutchinson, 66, who lives at the road with his partner and daughter. "Probably well before the 20 mile an hour speed limit came in. It's just been the

same."

‌ Pembrey Road serves as a route for people to go through from Llanelli, onwards to, Sandy, Kidwelly, Bury Port, finally leading up to Pembrey.

‌Pembrey road in Llanelli(Image: Google Maps) Leroy continues: “It's just never ending. It's just a race track… absolute race track.” Stay informed on Carms news by signing up to our

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The vehicles passing through can be heard as early as 9pm in the night, going "faster than fast."

Article continues below "It is mainly in the evenings and you sit in the house and then you just hear them normally around 9-9.30pm, right the way through to midnight, one o' clock in the

morning, two o' clock in the morning," Leroy said. "The big engines come out, the noisy engines and then it just speed.

"They're not even driving fast, it's faster than fast. It's racetrack speed, 60 miles an hour, 70 miles an hour."

Leroy fitted CCTV cameras to the front of his house, for personal reasons, but when he started hearing the constant noise of cars outside his house, he started to take notes.

‌ "About August last year, I started looking at the cameras," he said. "I just had this real interest in listening to what was coming past and then having a look at the cameras and comparing

what I was hearing."

The posts soon garnered attention from his neighbours, as Leroy said: "At first I just started sharing it on Facebook, because we've got our own neighbourhood watch. So I started sharing it

on Facebook and people were going, ‘wow, absolutely crazy.’"

Soon, Leroy began tagging Dyfed Powys police in the posts, he continued: "At first I was getting no response at all and I was making people in the Facebook group clear that I was gaining no

response from Dyfed Powys Police."Leroy explained that when the force did reach out to him, they would ask him to click a link to directly message them. He was then directed to make a

complaint to Go Safe, a dedicated department to investigate road traffic offences where evidence has been captured on camera.

‌ Leroy says he provided 39 pieces of video evidence of speeding from outside his house in August 2024.

A Go Safe response to his complaint, as seen by Wales Online stated that a change in speed limit, that is the implementation of the default 20mph speed limit, would “influence driver

behaviour” and they were allowing time for “driver behaviour to adjust.”

Go Safe added that it would be conducting an “assessment” of the location, and if the area was not suitable for enforcement, they would ensure that the area is noted for roadside engagement

teams.

‌ It has been been nine months since August 2024, and according to Leroy, the situation is still the same.

“Somebody being killed on this road, it is a matter of time,” said Leroy. “If you go back to the August videos of mine on my Facebook page, you will see I got to a point where I stopped

uploading. That's it. I said enough is enough here.”

Leroy explained: “Somebody came down Pembrey Road at speed on my side of the road — the wrong side of the road. It's what you call buzzing the cameras.

‌ “I said, that's it, somebody's sharing these videos because somebody's come maybe 300 metres, 400 metres on the wrong side of the road,” he added. “I don't even know what time it was at

night… I said to my missus, that it's enough because somebody is going to get killed here and I don't want to be encouraging it with more videos.”

Due to the what he believed was a lack of response by the police, Leroy, said he has “kind of just given up.”

When Leroy posted the videos on his Facebook account again, on May 28, 2025, he was met with a similar response.

‌ “Nobody's even picking the telephone up to call me. It's just generated. I don't know whether it's AI, whether it was just an automatic generated Facebook page they use because it says go

to Go Safe, send the report, upload the videos. So I said... I did all this last August, certainly not going to waste my time doing it again if it proves fruitless.”

However, GoSafe has told WalesOnline that Dyfed-Powys Police's operational team have attended the area four times to conduct assesments, and found "no evidence of speeding."

It said: "GoSafe were made aware of speeding concerns on Pembrey Road, Llanelli, in August 2024. The operational team in Dyfed-Powys Police attended the area on four occasions to conduct

speed surveys and assessments. They also analysed all collisions within a 2-year period.

Article continues below "There was no evidence of speeding during these assessments and the road was unsuitable for mobile enforcement. We are currently working with partners to assess

suitable enforcement locations in the surrounding area."