'Thirteen vehicles have crashed through my wall'

A woman living next to a busy junction has called for traffic calming measures after several "nasty" accidents, including 13 vehicles crashing through her wall and gate in the past two decades.

Thousands of people have already signed a petition calling for safety improvements at the junction between Old Wokingham Road and Easthampstead Road near Bracknell, Berkshire.

Road users said there was poor visibility for cars coming from Old Wokingham Road.

Wokingham Borough Council has said previously it was "committed to road safety across the borough" and the petition would be considered as part of the normal process.

"It's been horrendous with the accidents," said Chris Neen, who has lived in her home by the junction for 21 years.

She told the BBC: "The number is going up and up and up, it doesn't get any better.

"We've had 13 all together, bursting through the gates and the walls at different times."

Ms Neen estimated there had been more than 200 incidents in the time she has lived there.

"Most of them are shunts", she said, adding: "But there have been several nasty accidents also."

She said she has been in her garden or house and and heard "that bang".

"You know exactly what's happened before you come out," she said. "You just hope that no-one is badly hurt.

"It just worries me that people are going to come straight across this junction and kill somebody going along the main road, somebody totally innocent."

Wokingham councillor Marc Brunel-Walker, who set up the petition to change the junction, said it had been "the scene of many accidents over the last few years".

They were "mostly caused by people trying to get out, the sightlines and, of course, the speed [40mph] of this road doesn't help", he said.

The junction sits on the border between Wokingham Borough Council and Bracknell Forest Council land.

"That causes a lot of complexity when you're trying to figure out who has responsibility and actually, more importantly, who pays for a solution," said Mr Brunel-Walker.

Guy Gillbe, Bracknell Forest Council cabinet member for planning transport and countryside, said the authority was committed to ensuring road safety across the borough and "supporting measures to address concerns raised by residents".

He added: "Further improvements would require changes to land outside the control of either Bracknell Forest or Wokingham Borough councils, as it is privately owned."

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