AN MP has called on the Government to help reduce the death and serious injury on one of county's most notorious roads.

Nigel Evans, Conservative MP for Ribble Valley, has once again hit out over the lack of a roundabout on the A59 at the junction with Pendle Road, near Clitheroe.

Mr Evans raised the issue at a House of Commons debate on road safety and said the problem had not been solved because of a lack of Lancashire County Council funds.

The council has said alterations are being made to the junction in order to make it safer for road users but Mr Evans said it could not afford a roundabout.

Mr Evans said: "I have one of the most dangerous roads in Britain, the A59, in my area.

"On one part of it, where sadly there have been deaths and serious injuries, there have been calls for a round-about, but I am told by the county council that there are insufficient funds to build it.

"The council has put up a lot of cones, but accidents still occur. Will the minister please look seriously at using all the fines from speed cameras to improve road safety on some of our most dangerous roads?"

Jim Fitzpat-rick, the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, said that if the Ribble Valley MP wrote to him about the A59 he would look in to what could be done to improve safety there.

Back in August, a 60-year-old woman from Stacksteads was killed as she pulled out of Pendle Road on to the A59 and in the wake of the tragedy Mr Evans spoke out over the need for a roundabout at the junction.

However, LCC said it was in the process of installing traffic calming measures on this stretch.

An LCC spokesman said work had already begun to ban right turns into Pendle Road and to install radar activated speed signs on both sides of the A59.

The junction is also being altered to make the entrance more prominent in the hope that eastbound traffic turning left will have to slow down.

In the past decade, more than 40 people have been killed and over 1,800 injured on the A59.