A WEEK-long traffic survey in Neasham, near Darlington, found that almost 45pc of the 20,000 vehicles checked - 8,500 - were speeding.
On Wednesday, Neasham parish councillors said the village was being used as a rat-run and accused Darlington Borough Council of doing nothing to help.
Coun Peter Foster, a member of Darlington borough and Hurworth parish councils, told the meeting: "They don't realise it is a rat-run. We are taking the brunt of the traffic and they are not doing anything about it."
He claimed traffic used the villages around Darlington as a short cut to avoid congestion on the Darlington bypass.
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