It is designed to stop footballs from the youth pitch at Brigg Recreation Ground from finding their way onto the nearby and very busy A18 along Wrawby Road.
Footballs are unlikely to damage passing cars but the new fencing and netting should remove the need for players to retrieve wayward balls from the road.
We see this as a very sensible move by North Lincolnshire Council, which operates The Rec.
Prior to this expanse of grass being used for youth football, it played host to hockey matches and balls often found a way through the hawthorn boundary hedge and onto Wrawby Road.
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| Close-up of the netting (above) and (below) a view taken from the junior football pitch looking towards the new fencing and the A18 beyond, with the cemetery on the other side of Wrawby Road. |
It depends, Nige....a football hitting a car at 90degrees, or a car travelling at 30mph colliding with a football will create different rates of kenetic energy...
ReplyDeleteHowever, I assume now with the increased fence height the angle of any stray ball leaving the playing field towards Wrawby Rd will have to be high; it will pass over the road at altitude and potentially land in thd cemetery, where it should hurt no body!
It depends, Nige....a football hitting a car at 90degrees, or a car travelling at 30mph colliding with a football will create different rates of kenetic energy...
ReplyDeleteHowever, I assume now with the increased fence height the angle of any stray ball leaving the playing field towards Wrawby Rd will have to be high; it will pass over the road at altitude and potentially land in thd cemetery, where it should hurt no body!
.....or put it another way , Nige..the forcd of a pigeon flying into a Jumbo Jet while the aircraft is stationary, taxying slowing on the ground, will be insignificant compared with the same Jumbo colliding with the same pigeon at 350knots. (the jet's flying at 350knots - not the pigeon)
ReplyDelete.....or put it another way , Nige..the forcd of a pigeon flying into a Jumbo Jet while the aircraft is stationary, taxying slowing on the ground, will be insignificant compared with the same Jumbo colliding with the same pigeon at 350knots. (the jet's flying at 350knots - not the pigeon)
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