Safety fears over Brinsworth blackspot

Five people have been injured this year at the junction of Whitehill Lane and Bawtry Road.

In 2010, there were six injury accidents, one of them serious.

Rotherham College lecturer Lisa Evison (45), who lives in Brinsworth, said: “I’m quite an experienced driver and I feel in danger. The other day I saw someone in a car with a collar on, and the ambulance was there. Does it need someone to die for this junction to be looked at?”

A spokesman for Rotherham Borough Council said they were aware of the problems.

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She said: “Unfortunately, because of the constraints of the junction, which includes the adjacent narrow railway bridge and the steeply rising land opposite Whitehill Lane, there is very little scope for a cost effective road safety intervention scheme. 

“However, because there have been five accidents already in the first eight months of 2011 it is proposed to carry out a further review of this junction in an effort to identify suitable remedial measures.”