ROAD improvements designed to cut down accidents in Burnley and Pendle are featured in a £420,000 package announced by the county council. The four sites identified by traffic experts have been the scenes of 123 accidents over a five-year span. In total it will cost around £130,000.

Three of the sites are in Burnley at Accrington Road, Colne Road, and the gyratory system at Duke Bar.

In Pendle work will concentrate at Scotland Road near Every Street.

Accrington Road has a history of 26 accidents. Highways staff will close Perth Street to traffic, make a pedestrian crossing point at the existing central reservation, widen the footpaths and give the road an anti-skid treatment at the pelican crossing.

The most expensive project is at Duke Bar, where there have been 44 accidents. Improvements to the gyratory system will cost £57,000 and will include extending footpaths, modifying the pelican crossing and laying out driving lanes with white lines.

Cycle lanes and pedestrian refuges are designed to slow down traffic at Colne Road near the junction of Hebrew Road where there have been 27 accidents.

In Nelson, there have been 26 accidents at Scotland Road where it is planned to provide a pedestrian refuge, footway crossovers, wider pavements and changes to the zebra crossing.

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