CLIVIGER residents today stepped up calls for action at a notorious accident blackspot following a fifth serious smash in seven months.

Parish councillors said new signs were needed to avoid deaths on the road. And Burnley MP Peter Pike today vowed to put more pressure on county council road bosses so the new signs become a priority.

An 18-year-old girl was taken to Burnley General Hospital yesterday suffering from whiplash and shock.

Police said she lost control of her Vauxhall Corsa on a bend on the A646 Burnley Road, near Cliviger, at 11am, came off the road and crashed into railings.

She was later released from hospital.

The incident comes just weeks after concerned residents won their battle to have improved signs on the stretch to give motorists prior warning of the bends. But they are still waiting for the signs to go up.

Now Cliviger Parish Council has called for immediate action.

Coun Jean Haycock said: "Someone is going to get killed. It's horrific and nothing will be done until that happens. It's a very dangerous road.

"People walk along that road often and it makes me shudder to think what might happen."

Coun Haycock said as well as warning signs the road needed rumble strips so that drivers could be encouraged to slow down.

But she complained that the problem had been going on for years and still Lancashire County Council had not taken action.

Burnley MP Peter Pike has previously called for the county council to take action and said he would be putting more pressure on bosses.

He said: "It's with the county council and I will be chasing them up on it. It's taking a bit longer than one would wish but that's how things work. They will do something."

But Sgt Martin Bishop, of Colne Traffic Police, said motorists needed to take more responsibility, and added that road conditions in bad weather were also to blame.

"It's a winding stretch of road and needs to be driven accordingly. Drivers who don't take account of the bends can find they are travelling into them too fast and either take adverse action or lose control."

Nobody from the county council was available to comment.