RURAL roads can be a treacherous place, for both motorists and residents.

The quiet country lanes can often encourage reckless driving, so it is great to see councils working together to find a solution to this near Malmesbury.

After residents made complaints to Wiltshire Council about traffic whipping across the Common Road junction from Foxley Road, the parish councillors of St. Paul Malmesbury Without stepped in to solve the problem with the county’s highways team.

A sensible solution was reached and no doubt potentially devastating accidents will be avoided as a result.

Normally it takes someone to lose their life before such measures are taken, however, thankfully, this has been avoided this time around.

If ever there was an example of the importance of local government and community involvement, this is it.