SCRAPING motorcyclists off the Buxton Road is an occupational hazard for Macclesfield paramedics.

Holiday weekends are the most prolific with hundreds of bikers from far and wide determined to be faster, crazier and deader than any biker has ever been before.

While Wilmslow’s A34 has more cameras than Granada Studios, the A54 Buxton to Congleton Road has none. What it does have is ‘Police Traffic Aircraft Enforcement’. I know this to be true as I’ve read the signs alongside the road. What I haven’t seen is the ‘aircraft’.

To put my mind at rest, I’d love to hear from anyone who’s been ‘enforced’ by ‘aircraft’ whilst travelling from or to Buxton (stories of bright lights and aliens do not count).

You see, I’ve been travelling these roads for 30 years and I’ve yet to witness a monitoring aircraft. Some days there are more sheep on the roads than on the moors which, as any ‘enforcer’ would know, can be extremely dangerous.

You’d spot a flock of sheep from 5,000ft wouldn’t you, even if you couldn’t recognise a gang of Hell’s Angels hurtling towards them at 100mph? So where are these Police Traffic Aircraft and exactly what are they ‘enforcing’?

Maybe the motorcycles are going too fast for the police aircraft to catch them?

Whether you’re a police pilot or a biker, I want to hear your story. Tell me the last time you were involved in an airborne pursuit along the Buxton Road.

Considering the thousands of motorists prosecuted for speeding on far less dangerous routes, I’m expecting a huge response.

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