We said residents near the intersections with Peel and Veness streets had lost count of the number of crashes along their stretch of road, and feared it was just a matter of time until someone died in one of these crashes.

Residents were sick of bracing every time they heard the screeching of tyres, and they were sick of having cars crash through their front fences.

Worst of all, they were sick of having to call the police and ambulance when things inevitably went wrong. This newspaper said they were sick of waiting for action, and they should have to wait no longer.

As the graphic photo on today’s front page shows, though, very little has changed in Rocket Street. The car that smashed through David Bullock’s front fence on Saturday night was not the first and, if traffic calming measures aren’t put in place, it may not be the last.

The message to drivers to slow down in the area simply isn’t getting through. It must now be time to look at physical changes to stop the speeding.

Council should have its engineers down in Rocket Street today looking at traffic calming measures – maybe chicanes or even crude speed humps – because the number of crashes in that area is now beyond a joke.

One car through your front fence is an accident, two a coincidence, but four is a serious problem.

Rocket Street residents have suffered long enough.