Calls for speed limit at 'terrifying' junction
Supplied"Terrifying" videos showing people driving past a motorway junction's new stop signs have prompted calls to lower the speed limit.
A number of serious crashes at junction 37 on the M6, which carries the A684 over the motorway near Kendal, Cumbria, led to safety works which were completed last year.
These included stop signs at the exit slip roads and road markings on the A684.
MP Tim Farron and Liberal Democrat councillors Hazel Hodgson and Ian Mitchell now want a 40mph speed limit introduced. Westmorland and Furness Council has been contacted for comment.
National Highways said drivers failing to stop at junction 37 was a concern.
A spokesperson said: "Unfortunately, we aren't able to determine whether they are consciously ignoring the requirement to stop, or if some aren't noticing the very clear signage."
It said that if extra measures to improve safety were identified it would "aim to bring works forward to deliver them", but the decision to limit speed was for the Lib Dem-led council to consider.
In a letter, the Lib Dem MP and councillors called for the introduction of a 40mph speed limit on the stretch of the A684 at Junction 37, with a speed camera to enforce it.
"The recent video evidence gathered by National Highways which shows that many drivers are ignoring the new stop signs and are dangerously flying over the junction is as terrifying as it is sadly unsurprising," the letter read.
They said a speed limit would mean road users travelling past the junction would be in a better position to react to vehicles pulling out from the junction in front of them.
The politicians said they were grateful for the safety work so far but that it was "painfully clear that more needs to be done".