SELBORNE High Street was turned into a television studio last Thursday when Meridian TV beamed a special road safety feature live from the parking area outside The Selborne Arms.
Hosted by the station's transport correspondent, Mike Pearse, the programme featured a number of villages in the south which, like Selborne, are fighting to reduce the speed and volume of traffic.
Introducing the Selborne section, Mr Pearse interviewed Selborne resident Peter Lewis-Jones who was involved in a serious crash on the B3006 some years ago in which both he and his son broke their necks.
Mr Lewis-Jones explained that a car had come round the bend on the wrong side of the road.
"The next thing I remember was waking up in hospital," he said.
After Bob Thompstone, chairman of Selborne Traffic Action Group (STAG), had spelled out the reasoning behind his group's formation, Mrs Sue Martin spoke about the problems faced by mothers of young children.
"Some women in this village have to cross the road three times to get their children to school and the local authority won't put in a crossing because its too dangerous," she said.
Selborne's new Hampshire county councillor, Sir James Scott, was asked what the county planned to do about the problems.
He said that he was pleased the county surveyor had said that he was prepared to work with both Selborne Parish Council and STAG to see whether new traffic calming measures are necessary and possible.
"Realistically it ha to be remembered that there was a lot of pressure on the available funds and the county had to be careful not to do something so successful in Selborne that it squeezed traffic out to other villages," said Sir James.
"This is not the only bad road in the area," he said, "but its the most acute because of the way the village is constructed with houses quite so close to the road."