A CRASH that left a family car on its roof in a ditch has sparked fresh calls for action over an accident blackspot.
The car overturned on Coopersale Street, Fiddlers Hamlet, near Epping, where residents say cars often spin off the road because drivers are not warned of the hazardous bends or made to slow down.
Coopersale Street resident Simon Levy, 53, took the photograph just before 9am on April 11.
“I was going to work and I thought ‘oh my God, what’s happened?’,” he said. “I would be amazed if nobody got hurt, because the car was completely upside-down in the ditch.”
An East of England Ambulance Service spokeswoman said paramedics had not been called to the crash.
Mr Levy has been pushing the county council to reduce the 60 mph speed limit or install traffic calming measures on the road since he moved there about five years ago.
The county council says it has only had three reports of accidents on the road in that time, but Mr Levy said he had witnessed the aftermaths of 20 in the same period.
“(The council) don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “You speak to the residents along that stretch see how many accidents there are.
“They’re not collating the data and not being aware of it.”
He said there were accidents on the road through the village about once every two weeks and the rate was higher during the winter because of the icy weather.
The accidents last year included a bus crash and several cars spinning off the treacherous road and into garden walls.
The council said at the end of last year that it was reviewing data on crashes in the road before taking any action.
A spokeswoman said this week: “Essex County Council’s highways department is currently undergoing a county-wide review into speed limits at various locations.
"Coopersale Street is one of the locations within this review.
“The review is still ongoing at present.”
She said she did not know when the speed limit review would finish.
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