WORRIED residents have warned speeding motorists will cause a fatal accident unless something is done to stop them.

Blackburn with Darwen Council has received a petition from people in Fecitt Brow in the Shadsworth area of Blackburn.

Petitioners are calling asking for speed restrictions to be introduced before an accident happens.

But highways bosses say most cars which use the road stick to the speed limit and only one injury accident was recorded on the road between September 1993 and January 1999. A speed survey which was carried out on the road revealed that 85 per cent of traffic which used the road travelled at 32 miles per hour or below.

Even so, council officers say they are taking the complaints of residents seriously and will ask the police to consider a speed enforcement exercise along the road.

And they say they will consult householders in the area to ask whether they believe closing the road to through traffic would solve the problem without causing extra difficulties for residents. The highways and transport committee will discuss the issue on Thursday, August 12.

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