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Oh wow, you could totally see someone using that as a jump by accident, there’s no visual warning that the gradient is about to change if your approaching the cattle grid from below.

Easy to imagine someone at night, taking liberties with the speed limit, hitting that thing at 70mph and taking off.

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[Warning: over-serious response coming.] There's a big "cattle grid" sign a little way before it, so I don't think that's a realistic worry. As an aside, that road is long, but a dead end: it leads up to a beauty spot / hiking point. The road also largely lacks dividing lines (i.e. it's sort-of single track, though often wide enough for two vehicles), and the cattle grid comes not long after a sharp corner, so I can't imagine many vehicles would have been able to get to flying speeds. Besides, that neck of the woods has plenty of interesting driving roads including the main A39 out of Porlock just a couple of miles away, that I imagine are of more interest to speed demons.

> Easy to imagine someone at night, taking liberties with the speed limit, hitting that thing at 70mph and taking off.

"Easy to imagine illegal, reckless, dangerous behavior posing a danger."

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