“It’s been going on for decades. There was a public meeting about it nine years ago and nothing was done since,” said Wright. “The locals are just tired of no action taking place. They’re over the harrowing sounds of exhaust pipes.” Wright has lived in Cockle Bay for two years, and said accidents had ranged from cars hitting parked cars, spinning out into fences to the recent crash. He approached Luxon to call the meeting. “I would hear it from locals I talked to down at the beach, walking their dogs – you’d just hear it all the time.”