A POSTER campaign aimed at motorists speeding through a village has been unveiled.

Members of the Huncoat police team from Accrington Police spent an afternoon in the village putting up the signs after residents expressed concerns about speeding traffic.

Five main roads through Huncoat are currently at the centre of a Hyndburn Council investigation into the problem: Burnley Road, Bolton Avenue, Station Road, Highergate Lane and Lowergate Lane.

Council chiefs last week revealed that 15 per cent of drivers on Station Road drive "dangerously above the 30mph limit."

Sgt Craig Illingworth, who heads the Huncoat policing team, said: "We have placed these posters in strategic places around Huncoat.

"We hope that when drivers see them, it will encourage them to cut their speed.

"At the end of the day, speeding results in deaths and this has become an issue of great concern to people in Huncoat. Hopefully, people will drive more carefully in future."

The move has been welcomed by Huncoat councillor Dave Parkins.

He said: "It is good to see the police listening to local people and their concerns and then reacting to them.

"Speeding is a big issue here, especially with many of our roads being used by lorries to get to the nearby industrial estates. Hopefully people will now cut their speeds. In many cases, I think it has been more through luck than anything else that no one has been killed."

Some £3,000 of money allocated to the Huncoat Area Council by Hyndburn Council has been set aside to pay for new signs. PICTURE: PC Robert Barlow put up a sign, watched by PC Dave Gaskill