FOLLOWING a crash which put a man in hospital, campaigners are yet again calling on Wiltshire Council to improve the notorious A3102 near Calne.

On Monday morning a silver Renault Clio was travelling south towards Melksham when it collided with railings along the side of the road near Mile Elm between Sandy Lane and Calne, with passenger Pat Jefferies taken to Great Western Hospital.

Numerous accidents have occurred on the road and campaigners for the Mile Elm Speed Stoppers group are frustrated by what they see as a lack of action by Wiltshire Council.

Chairman of the group, Sharon Burton, of Wayside, Mile Elm, said: “I cannot take seeing another person at death’s door because of that road.

“I have been speaking to Mr Jefferies’s family on Facebook and they said that he went to Swindon for a CT scan but was then taken to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with a bleed on the brain.

“I was with him, talking to the ambulance people,and they were telling me what I needed to do. I was trying to talk to him about his family and his life.

“I was covered in his blood. He was travelling to work with a colleague. The airbag did not go off. I came out and saw he was seriously injured.

“I moved here eight years ago and there has easily been around 25 serious crashes since I have been here.”

Two years ago mum-of-three Tracey Rooke, 43, died when her Ford Fiesta collided with a 7.5 tonne lorry on the road.

An inquest into Ms Rooke’s death recorded an accident verdict in October that year, with the coroner saying he would raise the issue of why no action had been taken to improve safety on the road with Wiltshire Council.

“What is it going to take to change the road? Will it take another fatality to get the speed reduction done up here?” added Mrs Burton, 50.

“I was the one that was holding the hand of the woman who died here two years ago and the council have done almost nothing to change it.

“It is difficult for people to navigate the double S bends. It just does not stop happening and the council needs to do more.”

A Wiltshire Council spokeman said “We take road safety seriously and once we receive details on the nature of the collision from the police we will consider any further actions if necessary.”