COUNCILLORS have called for action to curb accidents involving runaway lorries on one of the region's steepest roads.
The calls over Blue Bank, in Sleights, near Whitby, North Yorkshire, follow a crash in which a lorry overturned at the bottom of the bank - scene of similar accidents in recent years - and collided with cars at the Plough Inn car park.
While a safety sliproad was built some years ago, members of Eskdaleside-cum-Ugglebarnby Parish Council want more safety measures because of the increasing volume of traffic using Sleights en route from Teesside to York and West Yorkshire.
North Yorkshire County Council said it had introduced a number of safety measures including an arrester bed, but officers have agreed to meet the parish council to discuss the issue.
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