Loved ones of a 29-year-old motorcyclist who died while on his morning commute are campaigning for the junction where he was killed to be demolished and replaced by a roundabout. Ashley Rogers, who had an 18-month-old son and a fiancée who he was due to marry this week, died at the junction following the crash involving his motorcycle and a van towing a trailer at the Nash Fingerpost on the A477 in Pembroke on May 13.
Campaigners have long called for a safety review of the junction where three motorcyclists have died in the last 12 years, calling it one of the most dangerous junctions in the country, but they say their appeals have fallen on deaf ears. Pembroke business owner Yvette Weblin-Grimsley said: "After the so-called improvements 12 years ago I dealt with the highways authority saying the improvements should have been a roundabout as it was still very dangerous and there would be even more fatalities.
"I had to travel the road twice a day to and from my business in Pembroke. Some mornings I would see a crashed car waiting to be taken away by a recovery vehicle and on my journey home in the evening there would be the residue of smashed glass in a different place on the junction. There were fatalities before this junction was ever 'improved' and there have been three fatalities since. People have also been seriously injured here. One man took 12 months to walk again and five years before he could walk unaided."
