New signage needed to change the speed limit on a Gerrards Cross road where a young woman and an elderly cyclist died is set to cost tens of thousands of pounds.

Hundreds of people signed a petition calling for the speed limit on the A413 to be cut from 70mph to either 50mph or 40mph in the wake of a string of serious and fatal crashes on the busy road.

Simran “Simi” Johal, 23, was one of five people in a blue Volkswagen Golf which mounted a roundabout in Chalfont St Peter and rolled onto its roof in a late-night horror smash in October 2020.

Then, on August 29 last year, a 78-year-old cyclist died following a crash with a silver Mercedes on the A413 Amersham Road southbound.

Also, on October 23 last year, a cyclist in his 40s required hospital treatment after being hit by a silver van at the roundabout of the A413 and Vache Lane.

In 2018, a 57-year-old man was killed after a crash with a grey Volkswagen Passat on the A413 Amersham Road, near the junction with Chalfont Park.

Fed-up residents demanded the speed limit be cut between The Greyhound Inn (Joiners Lane Roundabout) and the roundabout junction with Kingsway from 70mph, “to 50, or 40mph”.

It is expected to cost nearly £30,000 to upgrade the road signage from national speed limit down to 50mph, which is the new speed that has seemingly been agreed by Buckinghamshire Council.

Jagdeep Kandola, from Chalfont St Peter, who set up the petition calling for the change previously told the Bucks Free Press the speed limit is “totally inappropriate” on the busy road – and more than 850 people who signed the plea agreed.

Chesham and Amersham MP Sarah Green also backed the plans for the speed limit to be dropped.

And in an update on the situation, Cllr Tony Shinner, the chairman of Chalfont St Peter Parish Council, told fellow members of the Denham, Gerrards Cross and Chalfonts Community Board they had been given an estimated cost to get the ball rolling.

Cllr Shinner said: "Buckinghamshire Council have reported back on the A413, you will recall the board put up funding for a traffic survey.

“We've now heard back with an estimated cost for replacing the signs to reduce the speed limit from 70mph to 50mph of £28,000, so we've asked for further details.”