A public meeting will be held in a Shropshire village in a new bid to rally residents in a campaign for speed restrictions on a dangerous stretch of main road.

Alison Gregory is calling the meeting in Porthywaen, near Oswestry, because she has witnessed so many accidents and near-misses on the A495 outside her home. A heavy lorry and a number of cars have crashed into her garden.

In the latest incident a lorry, which had not been in view when she pulled out of her driveway, overtook her vehicle on a blind bend.

Mrs Gregory, of New House, who has the backing of Llanyblodwel Parish Council, will send a letter to everyone in the village about the issue and possibly organise a petition as well as calling the public meeting.

She claims many drivers are taking what she describes as a “dangerous stretch of road” at more than 70mph.

She said: “When we first came to live here 34 years ago, there was much less traffic and it was much slower but things have got massively worse over the years.

“I think when they built the Oswestry bypass we saw a significant increase in speed – almost as if they had come so fast along that stretch that they couldn’t slow down again,” she said.

Mrs Gregory said the issue had been looked at a few years ago by former county councillor Sarah Biffen, but at that stage nothing was done.

She said: “Now things are even worse. It’s dangerous for people trying to get out of their drives, it’s dangerous for children getting on and off the school buses and it’s dangerous for people trying to walk along the road.”

Llanyblodwel Parish Council has already called on Shropshire Council to install vehicle activated signs at two sites in their area but has been told the parish would have to pay for them.

At this month’s parish council meeting, Mrs Gregory was given the council’s support for any campaign she wanted to run to introduce a speed limit through Porthywaen.

Mrs Gregory said: “The next parish council meeting is scheduled for November 25 so during the next four weeks I intend to call on households to talk to people and give them details of our proposed plan of action.”