CALLS have been renewed for speed cameras after the latest in a series of crashes on a dangerous stretch of road where a dog walker was killed last year.

A driver was lucky to escape unharmed after he lost control of a Peugeot 106 that left the road and flipped on to its roof in Parklands Road, Waltham Abbey.

A passenger in the car was treated at the scene for cuts to his hands but did not need to be taken to hospital.

Alan Clark, 57, of Roundhills in Waltham Abbey has pleaded not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving after 51-year-old Sandra Toner was run-over while walking her Irish Wolfhound by the road in January Last year.

Driver Karen Gough, 45, was killed when a van car collided with her car on the road in 2004, and residents believe there will be further deaths without improved safety measures.

Mike Smith, of the Waltham Abbey Residents Association, said: “I am generally wary of heavy handed local government but I think that in certain places we need speed cameras and this one of those places.

“It is a really good stretch of road which is why you get lunatics speeding down there at 100mph.

“Something needs to be done because of the attitude of some drivers.”

Town councillor Anne Mitchell, who lives just off Parklands on Takeley Close, called for a reduction in the current 40mph speed limit.

She added: “Obviously it is a huge problem when anyone gets hurt.

“I for one would be in favour of stricter speed limits being imposed to get drivers to slow down.”

Residents’ Association member Sue Calvert, 41, who used to live in Parklands Road: “Speed cameras need to be installed.

“Lots of children live in the estates up there and their safety needs to be taken in to account.”

• Alan Clark is due to stand trial at Chelmsford Crown Court on June 14.