COUNCILLORS have called for a mobile speed camera to be installed on a Barrowford road to trap speeding motorists.

Residents have raised concerns about the speed of vehicles using the stretch of Wheatley Lane Road, between the junction of Carr Hall Road and Higher Causeway.

No recent speed surveys have been carried out there but council highways officers have been studying the road and their findings confirmed that vehicles were exceeding the 30mph speed limit.

There have been four collisions on the road in recent years, resulting in five casualties, four of which were slight and one serious.

According to the criteria set out by the Lancashire Road Safety Partnership (LRSP), the number of accidents on the road does not make it a priority for fixed speed cameras.

But is has been recommended as a site of community concern for evaluation by LRSP for a mobile safety camera to be provided.

In Pendle there are five sites where a mobile safety camera is in operation, two of which -- Keighley Road, in Laneshaw Bridge, and Carr Road, in Nelson -- are to be upgraded to fixed camera sites, and a further 16 are on the list of sites for consideration.

The final decision on whether this stretch of Wheatley Road will be added to that list will be made by the LRSP.

Barrowford councillor Allan Vickerman, said: "This road has been a problem for a long time and would welcome any suggestions about what can be done to make it safer.

"I am not one for speed cameras really, but something needs to be done there."

Coun Vickerman added that the relocation of St Thomas' Primary School on that stretch of road and the building of a new housing development made the need to improve safety even more urgent. The report will be discussed by the committee when it meets at Barrowford Civic Hall, in Maud Street, on Thursday, at 7pm.