LORRIES which keep getting stuck in a dead end close to an industrial estate are driving residents round the bend.

Karen Sharples, 46, said the final straw came this week when a lorry became stranded in a grass verge after trying to turn and become stuck in soft turf.

It had to be towed free by a recovery vehicle.

She said that she and other people living in Railway Terrace and Meadow Street, Great Harwood, are sick of being disturbed often late into the night by drivers going the wrong way down their roads.

Access to Alan Ramsbottam Way, where a number of factories are based, is restricted from nearby Meadow Street, where bollards are installed to stop heavy goods vehicles using the road.

But because the bollards do not appear on satellite navigation systems many delivery drivers are unaware that they cannot travel down Railway Terrace, which leads into Meadow Street, to get through.

The bollards were put in place by Lancashire County Council as a traffic calming measure around 10 years ago.

Drivers must use Heys Lane to access Alan Ramsbottam Way and signs are in place in Meadow Street warning drivers.

Mrs Sharples said: "We get so many lorries using this street and it needs to stop.

"We need increased signage and if the companies that are based here would warn the drivers that they cannot use Meadow Street that would help too.

"Just recently a lorry came down here at 1am and got stuck and the other day one tore up all of the grass verge trying to turn around.

"It's a right mess and it will only get worse if the drivers don't stop trying to use this road."

Hyndburn Council deputy leader Coun Peter Clarke, who represents Great Harwood, said: "We had a great number of problems a few years ago but lorry drivers started to get the message.

"I think the fact that more drivers are using satellite navigation systems, which will not show up traffic calming measures like this, is now making the problem worse.

"I sympathise with the residents there and I will certainly be looking to see if there is anything I can do to ease the problem."

One of the companies based the other side of the bollards said that it always aimed to keep drivers informed the correct routes.

A spokesman for Boxes Ltd Great Harwood said: "There have been problems in the past but anyone who delivers here regularly knows where to go and we have issued all of our suppliers with maps."