A businessman has fought for four years to change the layout of a busy junction after witnessing dozens of crashes.
Chad Ridley, General Manager of Vertu Honda, has raised concerns about the number of accidents which occur next to his dealership at the junction between Violet Close and Scotswood Road in Newcastle. The 40-year-old has been sending pictures of the collisions to Newcastle City Council to encourage them to make changes to the road.
However he says the local authority has told him that the annual funding for highways schemes has been cut over a number of years and they prioritise roads on a "worst-first basis". They told him, in November last year, that the junction was number 29 on the hot spot list and they did not have any plans to make changes at the location.
