Worried consumers are calling for “ridiculously high” speed bumps that scrape and harm vehicles to be lowered.
The new traffic-calming measures had been put in exterior Curry’s at Canterbury Retail Park final month.
They are on both facet of a pedestrian crossing – however some declare they are extra of a security danger than an help.
Footage exhibits each a silver BMW Z4 automobile and a Ford Focus scraping over the humps.
The managing brokers of the Sturry Road buying centre say they are now investigating after the issues of drivers had been raised by KentOn-line.
This week clients at the retail park – which can also be residence to The Range, Iceland and Carpetright – described the speed bumps as a “danger”.
Michael Williams, 83, informed KentOn-line: “90% of the vehicles going over them at greater than 10mph are getting the underside scraped.
“Even once I go over at 5mph, I nonetheless hear it hit the exhaust pipe.
“I feel we should always preserve them, however they need to be lowered to a wise height.
“Although they cease individuals stealing stuff and speeding out of the place, they’re nonetheless too excessive even for that.”
Mr Williams, who repeatedly outlets at Curry’s, fears individuals might “lose control” as they go over the bumps, which had been put in simply earlier than Christmas.
“It’s overkill, and someone will get killed if they bang their car really hard,” he mentioned.
“People are going to lose management, particularly younger drivers.
“They are ridiculous – far too excessive.”
Another common customer to the retail park, 63-year-old Lesley Knight, mentioned: “They are a bit excessive.
“People might harm their vehicles, and who’s going to pay for it once they do?
“It’s a bit foolish. We have a zebra crossing so they have to cease to let individuals cross.
“So what is the level of them? They are a waste of cash.”
Scratches might be seen on the tarmac the place vehicles have hit the ramps.
Staff at Curry’s have “one or two” clients complaining concerning the speed bumps day by day.
Sales assistant Mukesh Patel informed KentOn-line: “The bumps are damaging the vehicles, however we’ve obtained nothing to do with it as a result of we are not answerable for the work carried out and don’t know who authorised it.
“At least day by day, one or two clients are available in and point out it.”
The 63-year-old has a Mercedes C Class and has skilled the issue himself.
“It’s a low-profile one so you have to be really extra careful,” he mentioned.
“It’s a danger. It’s too high.”
Mr Patel added that he had not seen rushing or ‘boy racer’ behaviour within the automobile park.
Jean Swoffer, 83, mentioned: “They’re far too excessive with a little bit automobile.
“I do not know concerning the fashionable vehicles, however mine definitely bangs when it goes over.”
Mrs Swoffer visits the retail park typically, so encounters the difficulty repeatedly.
“I think they should be lowered,” she added.
“I can’t see any point in having them that high. It’s not as though they speed along here.”
The massive bumps have changed smaller yellow and black ones.
A spokesman for Roger Etchells and Co, the managing brokers of the buying centre, mentioned: “The security of tourists and workers at Canterbury Retail Park is extraordinarily vital.
“The speed bumps are a alternative of these beforehand in place on the entry highway the place there may be additionally a busy crossing level to one of many massive retail shops.
“We will examine this concern alongside our contractor.”
It is just not the primary time speed ramps have been deemed too huge in Kent.
In February final 12 months, bumps damaging vehicles in Swanscombe had been changed with ‘fake’ optical phantasm ones.
In 2017, some at a Tesco in Ashford had been branded “brutal” and subsequently lowered.
