More than 70 crashes on Welshpool's one-way road system
More than 70 collisions have taken place on a controversial one-way system since it opened - with 18 of them resulting in injury.
Dyfed-Powys Police said it has been called to 71 crashes on Welshpool's one-way system since it opened in March 2011.
The figures have been released through a Freedom of Information request submitted by Welshpool Town Council as it bids to make changes to the system.
They show 19 collisions on the system in its first nine months – four of them involving injury.
There were then 10 crashes in 2012, 18 in 2013 and 17 last year. There had been seven this year up to June 11 – although none had resulted in injury.
The statistics are for the main roads on the system – High Street, Broad Street, Jehu Road, Brook Street, Union Street, Mill Lane, Church Street and Severn Street.
Residents and councillors have spoken out about the danger of the system, with Councillor Ann Holloway warning it is a matter of time until someone is killed.
She said: "It is a dangerous system, you see near-misses regularly and I repeat my view that it is a matter of time until someone is killed."
The town council is being backed by Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies.
He added: "It only works well when there is light traffic. Confining all westwards moving traffic to Broad Street is never going to cope in busy periods."
Welshpool Town Council is asking the Welsh Trunk Road Agency to consider returning Brook Street and Union Street to two-way traffic.
