The south Manchester danger spot that's causing a MASSIVE headache for neighbours

Fed-up residents have taken to recording accidents at a Chorlton junction - and believe ‘at least 17’ have occurred this year.

Chorlton neighbours living near to the crossroads of Wilbraham Road and St Werburgh’s Road say crashes are a frequent occurrence at the spot. They claim they’ve spoken to Manchester council to ask for more safety measures to be installed, but their calls have not been heeded.

That’s despite their efforts to collect data on the danger spot. John Bamford, 78, said: “We thought we would record when we have seen the aftermath.

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“We have 16 this year. The first was on January 2, that was five cars. The last one was October 5. We think there’s probably more than 17.”

John, who has lived near the junction since 1988, added ‘Wilbraham Road has always been a speedy little thing’.

“St Werburgh’s Road to Wilbraham Road to Mauldeth Road is a rat run to get on to Princess Parkway,” he went on. “There’s a woman in one of the flats across the road who says they treat Wilbraham Road like a racetrack. She has raised with the council but nothing has been done.

“People want to come down St Werburgh’s and turn right. They watch the right but get traffic coming from the left.”

Neighbour Wahid Akhtar, who has lived nearby for 12 years, said a lot of children use a pelican crossing near the crossroads on their walk home from school.

His explanation for how collisions usually unfold tallied with John’s: “It’s always people coming straight down St Werburgh's Road and someone is turning right or left from Wilbraham Road.”

Residents have called for traffic lights to be installed to slow down motorists, said Mr Akhtar: “People have asked the council to install traffic lights… they say they have not got the funding. But they will not do anything unless there’s a fatality.”

John and Wahid both believed a traffic-light-controlled crossroad would ‘help’ prevent accidents. John also thought ‘it would help if it was left turn only from St Werburgh’s to Wilbraham going towards Chorlton’, and said his ideal was ‘seeing those tubs in Longford Park that block cars’ — aka a low-traffic neighbourhood.

The MEN has contacted Manchester council to see if it will install traffic lights in the area, but a spokesperson did not give a definitive answer. They did however say ‘all reports of incidents’ were ‘taken seriously’, but funding needed to be spent ‘based on potential risk’.

The council's statement in full said: "While all reports of incidents on our road network are taken seriously the Council has to prioritise areas of spending based on priority and potential risk. Decisions around new infrastructure spending must be made based on where they are needed most, and where their implementation has the best chance to reduce accident or injury."