Watch car plough into oncoming traffic & FLIP on ‘UK’s most dangerous junction’ which saw 13 crashes in just 2 months

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HEART-PUMPING CCTV footage shows a spate of car crashes astatine "Britain's astir unsafe junction" which has seen THIRTEEN accidents successful six weeks.

The junction on the A521 successful Cheadle, Staffordshire has seen cars flip successful the air, collide with lorries and chalk up astir £200,000 worthy of harm implicit the past 2 months.

An aerial presumption    of a clang  country   connected  the junction successful  Cheadle, Staffordshire

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An aerial presumption of a clang country connected the junction successful Cheadle, StaffordshireCredit: SWNS

Shocking CCTV footage from councillor Gary Bentley's Ring doorbell captured the melodramatic  scenes

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Shocking CCTV footage from councillor Gary Bentley's Ring doorbell captured the melodramatic scenesCredit: SWNS

The town's assembly  person  confirmed they are investigating the crashes

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The town's assembly person confirmed they are investigating the crashesCredit: SWNS

The spate of collisions has shaken locals

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The spate of collisions has shaken localsCredit: SWNS

Misleading springiness mode signs and faded roadworthy markings are said to beryllium to blasted for the staggering fig of crashes arsenic cars regularly neglect to dilatory down successful time.

Ring doorbell footage from adjacent councillor Gary Bentley's location captured the melodramatic scenes and helium believes there's been astir 13 crashes since August alone.

One video shows a car failing to spot the springiness mode road 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 October 17 erstwhile a car smahed into a van astatine the junction which connects to Draycott Cross Road.

Homeowners fearfulness idiosyncratic volition beryllium killed astatine the mishap blackspot and is urging the assembly to instrumentality action.

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

"You perceive a large bang, you travel moving retired and there's a car connected its extortion again," Conor, 55, revealed.

"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.

Irish Rail stock shocking collisions footage successful large informing to roadworthy users

"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, ain arsenic location overlooking the junction and 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?

You perceive a large bang, you travel moving retired and there's a car connected its extortion again

Conor, 55Local

"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.

"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 dad is 84 and helium wanders up that roadworthy each time long. That's what my interest is.

"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 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."

The Sun Online has reached retired to Staffordshire County Council for comment.

There person  been 13 heart-pounding accidents successful  conscionable  six weeks

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There person been 13 heart-pounding accidents successful conscionable six weeksCredit: SWNS

A clang  country   connected  the junction successful  Cheadle

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A clang country connected the junction successful CheadleCredit: SWNS

Sign posts were uprooted successful  1  specified  incident

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Sign posts were uprooted successful 1 specified incidentCredit: SWNS

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