A £152,000 project to help improve safety on a rural road dubbed one of the most dangerous in the county has been unveiled.

Lancashire County Council plans to spend the cash on the A59 between Gisburn and Sawley Brow.

The notorious section from Smithies Bridge, west of Sawley Road to the start of Gisburn village has seen more than 25 crashes in the past seven years, with eight people killed on the road in the last three years, and several injured during smashes.

The moves comes after residents and councillors had campaigned for traffic calming measures to be introduced for a number of years.

Coun Michael Ranson, council leader and also a Sawley ward councillor, who lobbied county hall chiefs to improve the road welcomed the scheme.

He said: “There have been so many accidents there over the last few years that something really needed to be done.”

The county council plans to improve the stretch with better road markings, including white lines in the centre of the carriageway and installing bolt down kerbs at the Sawley Road junction to create islands necessary to protect turning traffic.