Britain’s ‘most dangerous junction’ has seen 13 crashes in just six weeks

Extraordinary CCTV footage shows a bid of car crashes astatine ‘Britain’s astir unsafe junction’, which has seen thirteen accidents successful 2 months.

Several cars person ended up flipping, portion 1 deed a monolithic lorry astatine the junction on the A521 successful Cheadle, Staffordshire.

Thankfully nary 1 has been killed, but locals consciousness it’s conscionable a substance of clip if thing is done.

They blasted misleading springiness mode signs and faded roadworthy markings for the staggering magnitude of crashes, which person caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worthy of damage.

Ring doorbell footage from adjacent councillor Gary Bentley’s location captured the melodramatic scenes. Gary said he’s counted 13 smashes since August.

One video shows a car failing to spot the springiness mode roadworthy markings and speeding implicit the lines earlier being smashed into by a lorry.

Another clip shows a SUV being clipped by a VW Golf earlier being sent rolling crossed the roadworthy onto the pavement.

The astir caller mishap happened connected Thursday (October 17) erstwhile a car and a van collided astatine the junction.

Residents are present pushing for the assembly to marque changes to the junction, to assistance forestall aboriginal accidents, and perchance deaths.

Conor Bernard Devine, landlord of the adjacent Huntsman pub, has been keeping a tally for the fig of days betwixt each smash, which presently sits astatine four.

The 55-year-old, said: ‘You perceive a large bang, you travel moving retired and there’s a car connected its extortion again.

‘It’s a question of clip earlier idiosyncratic gets killed retired there.

‘We’re connected a 4 time streak astatine the moment. We’ve been present 15 years, it’s ever been atrocious for the accidents.

‘For immoderate crushed it’s getting worse. I don’t cognize if it’s the roadworthy markings oregon not.

‘Three person been precise superior past there’s been a mates of small fender benders.

‘There’s besides an Aldi supermarket being built which is going to bring much postulation to the town.”

Gary, an Independent councillor for High Peak Borough Council, has called for postulation lights to beryllium installed.

He said: ‘It’s a engaged junction. We deliberation it could beryllium Britain’s astir unsafe – it has been successful the past fewer weeks.

‘We were each acrophobic astir the road issues and radical retired of municipality coming down, astir of the crashes are from radical extracurricular the area.

‘A mates of weeks agone a car came implicit and didn’t cognize helium had to stop. There were two. One was deed by a car and different by a lorry. We enactment it down to the faint lines.

‘The assembly painted 1 line. But the clang past week was the different side, wherever they didn’t paint. They lone painted 1 broadside of the road. Who does that?

‘One broadside is beautifully painted, the different broadside you can’t see. I wanted the signs changing from springiness mode to stop, that’s the minimum I want.

‘We ideally privation a acceptable of postulation lights. We had different acceptable of crossroads that caused a death, but 18 months agone they’ve got postulation lights. That’s what I’m pushing for.

‘We’ve had £170,000 cars smashed successful conscionable six weeks. It happens each the time. We don’t conscionable person these large ones, we person small crashes too.’

Gary says helium worries astir his 84-year-old dada Alan who lives adjacent and often walks on the road.

He added: ‘It’s been going connected for years, but it seems to person gotten worse this year. I tin lone enactment it down to the attraction of the road, the potholes.

‘There were nary achromatic lines astatine the end. There’s a giveaway motion precocious up.

‘This is my corner, I emotion my corner. We each get on, we each assistance each other. The lone happening letting it down is the crossroads.”

Dad Alan, who has lived successful the country for 60 years, said: ‘It isn’t safe. I’d similar a large roundabout, a monolithic roundabout to dilatory them down, oregon postulation lights.’

Mark Deaville, furniture subordinate for strategical highways astatine Staffordshire County Council, said crashes were being investigated.

He said: ‘Once we person each the information, we volition look to spot if immoderate enactment is required astatine the location.

‘Keeping our roads harmless remains our precedence and we bash perceive to residents and enactment with section communities if they person concerns astir roadworthy information successful their area.;

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