THE fatal car crash in which Preston teenager Lisa Thomas suffered serious injuries has sparked an angry response from people living near the scene.

Lisa, 18, from Fulwood, is said to be 'recovering well' in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital - one week after the holiday accident at a notorious road junction in Mid Wales.

Her friend Kelly Lang, also 18 and from Wigan, died when Lisa's Vauxhall Nova collided with a minibus at the controversial Sarnybryncaled junction on the A483 Welshpool by-pass.

Campaigners have urged the government to make changes to the junction - which has claimed three lives and been the site of numerous accidents - since it was opened in 1993.

Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Opik and his predecessor Alex Carlisle have pushed Welsh Office Transport Minister Peter Hain to agree to a roundabout at the junction for three years.

And although Mr Hain had agreed to give the roundabout the go-ahead, nothing can be done until a review of Welsh trunk roads is completed this month.

MP Mr Lembit said: "We have persuaded the local government to install speed restriction signs at the junction but this is not enough.

"Kelly's life may have been saved and Lisa could have escaped injury if a roundabout had been in place at this junction.

"Publicity about the dangers of this road has made local people take more care. Tourists like Lisa would have no idea that it is known as an accident blackspot."

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