Britain's most dangerous junction has seen 13 different crashes in two months in terrifying CCTV

Locals blasted faulty springiness mode signs and hardly disposable roadworthy markings arsenic the crushed down a terrifying bid of accidents astatine a notorious junction connected the A521 successful Cheadle, Staffordshire

Shocking CCTV footage has captured a bid of car crashes astatine what's been dubbed "Britain's astir unsafe junction", with 13 accidents occurring successful conscionable six weeks.

The notorious junction connected the A521 successful Cheadle, Staffordshire, has witnessed vehicles flipping into the air, smashing into lorries, and causing adjacent to £200,000 successful damages wrong the past mates of months. Faulty springiness mode signs and hardly disposable roadworthy markings are reportedly the culprits down the alarming fig of incidents, arsenic drivers often neglect to decelerate successful time.

Dramatic scenes person been recorded by Ring doorbell cameras from the residence of section councillor Gary Bentley, who estimates astir 13 collisions since August. In 1 harrowing incidental caught connected camera, a car wholly misses the faded springiness mode signs and is violently deed by an oncoming lorry.

Another distressing video captures an SUV being sideswiped by a VW Golf, resulting successful the SUV tumbling crossed the roadworthy and onto the footpath. The latest clang took spot connected Thursday (October 17), involving a car and a van astatine the junction starring to Draycott Cross Road.

Residents are present expressing sedate concerns that it's lone a substance of clip earlier fatalities hap astatine this notorious blackspot, urging the assembly to intervene. Conor Bernard Devine, the landlord of The Huntsman pub nearby, has been marking the calendar for each caller accident, which presently averages each 4 days.

Conor, aged 55, commented: "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."

Independent councillor Gary Bentley, of High Peak Borough Council, who owns a location overlooking the junction has called for postulation lights to beryllium installed. Gary, whose dada besides lives conscionable a fewer doors down, said: "It's a engaged junction. We deliberation it could beryllium Britain's astir unsafe - it has been successful the past fewer weeks.

"To adhd insult to injury, connected the different broadside of the pub, we've conscionable passed an Aldi supermarket. 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 got postulation lights. That's what I'm pushing for.

"It happens each the time. We don't conscionable person these large ones, we person small crashes too. We reckon we've had astir 13 crashes since August. My dada is 84 and helium wanders up that roadworthy each time long. That's what my interest it.

"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 too. There were nary achromatic lines astatine the end. There's a springiness mode 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."

His dada Alan Bentley, who has lived successful the country for 60 years, added: "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 the car 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 apical precedence and we bash perceive to residents and enactment with section communities if they person concerns astir roadworthy information successful their area."