Ring doorbell and CCTV footage has captured drivers repeatedly crashing into bollards on Woodmere Avenue in Watford, Hertfordshire, where a long-standing width restriction was installed to stop lorry drivers using the road as a rat run. Resident Tim Vigor, who overlooks the restriction, has now called for the slimmed-down road to be widened, saying the situation has descended into "chaos" and that the authorities responsible are simply not interested in fixing it.

Vigor, 57, has lived on the road for 30 years and says his cameras have caught hundreds of incidents, with cars rolling over, losing wing mirrors and tyres, and becoming wedged between the bollards. He claims that over a ten-year period there were at least two accidents a day on the stretch between the A41 and Bushey Mill Lane, and one crash occurred as recently as last weekend despite the restriction having been widened in recent years. Footage shows one car flipping completely with debris flying across his driveway, and another being thrown onto its side as a bollard smashed through its window.