POLICE have issued a road safety warning to motorists on a road where at least a dozen cars have crashed into a field in less than six months.

It follows the latest accident in which a woman narrowly escaped injury when her Vauxhall Astra left Stanhill Road, Oswaldtwistle, on a sharp left hand bend near the motorway bridge.

Alma Sandra Jones, 54, of Pendle Street, Accrington, was travelling from Oswaldtwistle to Knuzden when she lost control of the car and crashed through a fence into the field at 9.30am yesterday.

She escaped serious injury but was taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary. Her car had landed on its roof in a field near to The Stanhill pub.

She was helped out of the car by Accrington firefighters and station officer Trevor McCoy said she was "very lucky" to escape.

Sergeant Stuart Isherwood, of Accrington road safety police, said: "We haven't had any serious accidents there yet, but it's only a matter of time."

He said: "Drivers are regularly failing to take this bend and ending up in the field.

"There used to be a wall there but it's been damaged so often there's just a fence there now.

"We believe there may be more crashes than we know about as the farmer tells us many of them just drive out of the field again."

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