A FATHER whose daughter died in a road accident is pleading for motorists to heed restrictions placed on the temporary bus station in Croft Street, Burnley.

In October, work started to build Burnley's £2.6million bus station and Croft Street was restricted to one-way for cars travelling from Yorkshire Street towards Red Lion Street because the road is being used for temporary bus stops.

Although only buses and cyclists are allowed in the opposite direction, many motorists seem to have failed to see the signs.

Keith Sainsbury, 45, works for Burnley and Pendle Transport cleaning the mainline buses in Croft Street, but is having to turn Traffic warden to instruct motorists that they can't drive along the road.

Keith, of Cooper Street, Nelson, lost his four-year-old daughter Jo-Anne after she ran into the path of a car on Scotland Road, Nelson.

He said: "Sometimes you can have ten cars in half an hour going the wrong way on that road and other times there is no-one for half an hour. I had to jump out of the way of one driver today because he ended up where the taxi rank used to be.

"Then there is all the problems they cause to traffic because they have to do a three-point turns in the middle of the road where the buses are. I am worried that if motorists do not start adhering to the restrictions then there is going to be another serious accident and someone will be seriously injured or injured."

Traffic Sgt Eric Marshall said: "We are aware of the problem and we are monitoring it. Any local area which changes road conditions is subject to weeks of problems before it gels that the road has changed.

"There are no entry signs at the bottom saying no access to cars. I actually stopped someone myself when I was off duty who had driven the wrong way and I explained the street was now one-way to cars."

He said police and traffic wardens were doing what they could to enforce the restrictions and he would speak to the council to make sure notices were clear.