AFTER three serious accidents in less than 48 hours on an already-notorious danger road have left nine people injured, the situation cries out for action.

Above all, when speed is cited as a factor and when people living alongside this road -- the A675 between Abbey Village and Belmont -- claim it is being used like a race track by motorists and bikers.

Lives have already been lost on this road and it is only good fortune that none was added to the toll at the weekend. Yet, when it is such a manifest accident blackspot, why is it that residents' demands for speed cameras and traffic-calming measures go unheeded?

It is not that there has been no action -- measures, including a reduction of the speed limit through Abbey Village, have been taken. But villagers say more are needed.

And when the proliferation of speed cameras and expensive and extensive traffic calming schemes elsewhere in Lancashire includes many areas whose 'blackspot' status is in doubt, it is both perplexing and frustrating that such a notorious one is not given total and urgent attention.

If the criterion is that speed cameras and traffic calming are installed on danger roads, how many more people have to be killed and injured on this race-track one before the police and highways officials realise that those conditions have been met?