THE speed limit will be cut on the road where a family of five were killed last month.

The Cockburn family, from Ouston, Chester-le-Street, County Durham, were killed as they headed to a dancing competition at Skegness, Lincolnshire.

Their car and a lorry collided on the A18 at Barton Street, Laceby.

Angela Cockburn, 49, her husband David, 48, daughters Carly Ann, 21, Bethany, 18, and Bethany's one-year daughter Lacie Stephenson, died.

The road is a notorious accident blackspot and its current 60mph limit is to be reduced to 50mph in the next month or so by North East Lincolnshire Council.

The Grimsby stretch of the A18 featured in a BBC television programme, Britain's Killer Roads, in 2011.

The programme claimed the road was 25 times more dangerous than the average British motorway, with 20 crashes in the previous three years. It was also found to be the UK's highest-risk stretch of road for car drivers in a nationwide survey conducted by the Road Safety Foundation in 2010.

Councillor Karl Wilson, chairman of the council’s regeneration and environment select committee, said: "Ultimately, the aim of the recommendations is to reduce the number of people who are killed or seriously injured on the roads and the number of people involved in slight injury collisions."