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Wales Online
National
Laura Clements

The Welsh town where lorries keep hitting houses and getting stuck in narrow streets

Barely a month goes by in this part of town without lorries driving into houses and residents having to pile out in the small hours of the morning to redirect traffic stacked up, Jenga-style, along the impossibly narrow street.

Just over a week ago, a HGV got stuck on the hill, blocking the road completely for hours on end. A few months before that, a lorry towing a yacht wedged itself on the sharp bend for several hours. There have been occasions where residents have been woken at 2am by the shouts of lorry drivers facing off in the middle of the road as both refuse to reverse - either because they can't or because they're stuck.

Summer is worse, said long-time resident Richard Davies, when tourists pile through Fishguard along the A487 between Newport and St Davids and underestimate just how narrow the street is.

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