Speed limit review for 'accident cluster' junction

The speed limit at a crossroads that has been deemed an "accident cluster" site will be reviewed.

There have been 11 crashes around the junction of Fulney Drove and Mill Drove North, near Spalding, in the past five years, according to Lincolnshire County Council.

A planning committee meeting on 9 February will look at reducing the limit from 60mph (96km/h) to 50mph (80km/h) in all directions approaching the junction, after warning signs and road markings were unsuccessful.

The change would extend north to the junction of Weston Hills Road and south to the A16, if approved.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, there have also been five more accidents where people have been injured to the north of the area in the past five years, and four to the south.

A council report stated: "The site is recorded as an accident cluster site by the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership but despite engineering interventions including enhanced advance warning signage and changes to road markings, the numbers of reported injury accidents remains high."

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