SPEED campaigners are furious after Wiltshire Council refused to place solar-powered warning signs at an accident hotspot in Calne, despite a parish council agreeing to pay for them.

The Mile Elm Speed Stoppers group got £10,000 for vehicle activated signs warning drivers of the dangerous bend ahead from Calne Without Parish Council last summer, but plans to place them along the stretch of the A3102 fell through after Wiltshire Council failed to back the scheme.

Sharon Burton, of Wayside, Mile Elm, said: “The council have resurfaced the road and repainted the white lines and if anything it has made people go faster because their tyres are gripping the road more. The council think they have got away with doing nothing and it really infuriates me when we have got the funding.

“I am just waiting for the next accident. How many more people need to die before they do something?”

The stretch, which has been dubbed Death Road by locals, has seen one fatal accident, two serious and five slight accidents in the last seven years according to Wiltshire Police.

Tina Rooke, whose sister Tracey Rooke, 43, from Worton, died following a collision with a 7.5-tonne lorry in March 2014, said more needs to be done.

“I feel disappointed that Wiltshire Council has not really done anything,” she said. “How would they feel if it was one of their family? It was not a road my sister knew well and she only took it because the road she usually took had roadworks. I think signage would help.

“I still struggle with it all. I can’t believe it and I miss her every day. My whole life has changed. I can’t change what happened to her but we could change what happens to someone else.”

This week the parish council said: “Calne Without Parish Council have for some time been concerned about speeding and accidents at Mile Elm. Wiltshire Council decided not to progress a recent proposal on the possibility of funding solar powered warning signs until the monitored effectiveness of recent highway changes could be established. over the winter period . “The resurfacing work represents a large investment from Wiltshire Highways, who are confident that this work will see a significant reduction in the number of incidents which occur. The issue will be revisited in spring 2017.”

A Wiltshire Council spokesman said: “We do appreciate people’s concerns given the collisions that have previously occurred on the road through Mile Elm. However, last year’s improvements including resurfacing work and refurbishment of the central white line/cats eyes are effective measures aimed at reducing the issues which occur here. There is currently no further work planned for this area.

“We will continue to regularly monitor this road to establish if these improvements have been effective, and are not aware of any incidents since they were completed.”