Concern has been raised over the amount of speeding in Carmarthenshire after construction of a new bypass has been delayed.

County Councillor Edward Thomas revealed there was an incident last month  when a car crashed into a lamp post in Llandeilo near LBS Home Store on Rhosmaen Street.

This comes following reports of a five-month delay in appointing an employment agent for the delivery of the project.

Mr Thomas said: “Drivers are deliberately speeding through town, especially in the evening and I am concerned a fatality will occur. I have asked South Wales Trunk Road Agent to consider putting up speeding indicator signs.

“This includes one near where the accident occurred to slow traffic down as there are two primary schools further down the road.

“I have also suggested that a sign is placed near the bridge as vehicles are seeing a straight road ahead and are hitting high speeds when entering Ffairfach.

“Llandeilo is unfortunate that it has a trunk road A483 running through its main street some of these issues can be resolved with a bypass. No one was hurt on this occasion, but we all know that speed can kill, and I am concerned that action needs to be taken.”

At a Senedd meeting on November 20, Adam Price MS asked the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales, Ken Skates MS to offer an update on the Llandeilo bypass.

Mr Price said: “I was informed the employment agent was to be appointed in August of this year. They’re now going to be appointed in January. Will that have a knock-on effect on the latter stages in the project development?

“Any further delay would be a matter of grave concern, because this is already a project that is eight years now in the making since the original decision.”

Mr Skates responded by claiming there would be no further delay to the project.

He said: “The Welsh Government will procure an early contractor involvement—an ECI—in winter 2026, and then further outline design development will continue in 2026 to allow the drafting and publication of draft orders and the environmental statement in spring 2027, as the Member outlined.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson from Welsh government reassured locals that speeding would continue to be monitored.

They said: “We take road safety very seriously and regularly monitor police records including personal injury collision data to inform engineering measures to improve road safety on the Strategic Road Network.

“Communities can report any concerns around speeds directly to GoSafe, the Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership, who are responsible for speed limit enforcement.”