WORRIED villagers are calling for action to keep motorway traffic away.

Members of Brindle Parish Council fear children are at risk from the heavy goods vehicles and speeding cars at Sandy Lane.

They have asked the county surveyor for the B5256 to Leyland not be signposted on the new M65 - at what will be the Hoghton Arms roundabout turn-off - to avoid having motorists driving through the village.

They also want traffic calming measures on their country lanes before an accident happens.

"The parish council chairman sat in her car for two hours by the roadside doing a survey of the number of vehicles that pass along the lane," said Tony Harkness, clerk of Brindle Parish Council.

"She counted 120 heavy goods vehicles going through the centre of the village within two hours - most of them going through to the M65 motorway construction sites.

"Local residents are very concerned. Lorries go through early in the morning and at lunchtime, and we are most concerned that they are also going through at 3.30 in the afternoon when the schools are let out.

"The road has a weight limit and they seem to be ignoring this.

"We are sitting out and watching them so that we can take their registration numbers and their firm's names and report them to the police."

The county surveyor is now looking at traffic calming measures.

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