A PETITION calling for road safety improvements on a ‘dangerous’ Brighouse road has been launched.

Halifax Road is a known danger spot, particularly at its junction with Granny Hall Lane.

Only recently two taxis crashed into different walls along the road on the same day.

Members of the Brighouse Road Safety Committee this week agreed that tackling the issues of Halifax Road was a priority.

Committee chairman Ann Rutherford said: “We don’t walk down that road every day, but a group of people do and they are the students at Brighouse High School.

“They use that road to get to the sixth form college and they perhaps see what is needed.

“We have asked the school if they will take on Halifax Road, tell us what problems there are and they may even know of solutions.

“The pupils are walking down there on a daily basis. They are prepared to put it into the curriculum and give us feedback, which I think is a good thing. Younger eyes might see things older eyes don’t.”

Clr Colin Stout, a Brighouse councillor and resident who lives near to Halifax Road, said he’d received reports of two accidents in the last week along the problem road.

He said: “At 2.30am on Bank Holiday Sunday a taxi went round the wall at Granny Hall, then at 3am another taxi going from Brighouse to Hipperholme smashed into two walls, which spun the car.

“The police were called but because they have driver details and there was no injury I don’t think it’s considered to be an accident.

“This is the seventh accident in the last couple of months where there hasn’t been anybody injured, but there is an issue here whether it’s recorded as one or not.”

The councillor revealed statistics he’d received from the police, they include;

Six road incidents at Granny Hall Lane.

Two on Halifax Road near its junction with Finkil Street.

Two on Halifax Road near its junction with Upper Green Lane.

Two at Hove Edge and a further incident near Mill Grove.

Concerns were raised about a proposed development near Kershaws Garden Centre at Halifax Road and a further 147 new homes further up the road in Hipperholme.

Mrs Rutherford added: “The bottom line is that Halifax Road can’t cope with the traffic it’s got now, never mind all these developments it wants to out it.”

A petition calling for improvements to road safety, measures to slow down the traffic, speed cameras and flashing 30mph speed signs has been launched by Clr Stout.

It will call on Calderdale Council to make resolving the issues along the road a priority.