Residents living near a busy junction in a Nottinghamshire town have voiced safety concerns, with one describing it as a "death-trap". Neighbours have called for speed cameras to be placed at the Coppice Road junction with Rolleston Drive in Arnold to help catch out motorists travelling over the limit.
One resident who lives close to the junction said there seemed to be accidents "left, right and centre". Tracy Kershaw, 49, said: "It's a bit horrendous but it's a lot better since they did the roads.
"I've lived here 16 years and probably seen a dozen or so accidents. Sometimes I'll be going down Coppice Road and want to go right and a van will want to go left and I don't know what to do about it. But most junctions are the same, it depends on the driver."
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Reece Nicholson, a 34-year-old operations director, who lives nearby, said: "I find it alright but there's quite a lot of accidents, I know of two blokes that were knocked over. At night all you hear are cars flying past."
Speed cameras are placed further down Coppice Road, however, another neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said there "definitely" needed to be more cameras near the junction. The 35-year-old mum said she knew of cats that had been killed at the crossing.
"It's a death-trap, no-one cares and everyone's honking their horns," she said. "No-one abides by the speed limit and there are so many crashes. Since I moved here 10 years ago there's been about a dozen big crashes.
"I have to be cautious when I'm crossing the road. There definitely needs to be speed cameras. Even though there are traffic lights there are still people who do what they shouldn't be.
"There are animals that get hit, I know three cats that have been squashed. Luckily mine's not that stupid to go out and cross the road. You get the boy racer types that just drive straight down. It normally happens late at night."
An 84-year-old resident, who did not wish to be named, said she witnessed emergency services respond to a crash at the junction just last week. "I looked out my window and there were two ambulances flashing and two police cars," she recalled.
"They were there for a while, it looked really scary. I thought 'I hope someone's alright'." Nottinghamshire County Council was approached for comment.
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