FOLLOWING the Star's front page story (June 29) on the fatal accident at Clock Face Road last month, which also injured a local girl, her family are now threatening drastic action unless St Helens Council agree to install a crossing and speed ramps.

Local residents claim the accident, which happened near the junction with Four Acre Lane and resulted in the death of a female motorcyclist, was the latest in a long line which have injured or killed pedestrians as they attempted to cross the road.

Andrew Isaacs, whose 12 year old daughter Becky broke her leg in the latest accident, said: "All we get from the council is that there is no more money left so they can't afford to do anything about the road. Yet they can still afford to pay councillors' expenses. And in the meantime, we are getting an accident every week.

"This stretch of the road has a central reservation which the council say should make it easier to cross but yet the accidents still keep happening. It needs a pedestrian crossing or at least speed ramps which would definitely slow traffic down. As it is, my daughter could have been killed in that accident and we have had enough now.

"If something isn't done in the next fortnight we are prepared to start blocking the road ourselves."

West Sutton councillor, Tom Hargreaves, said: "The council has been looking at ways to reduce accidents on Clock Face Road since 1996 and we have reduced the width of the road to make it a single lane instead of the original two lanes.

"I know some residents are calling for a form of crossing on the road and this is something we would need to discuss with the police and Highways Agency. However, at the moment the council just don't have sufficient funds to carry out the research."