Residents are worried for their safety after a lorry knocked down the fences outside their homes.
The lorry was swerving to avoid a collision with a car when it ploughed into the fence outside the five Dulverton Cottages in Warren Lane, Stanway, Colchester, on Friday afternoon.
Worried - Mary-Louise Harding outside her home in Warren Lane Picture: STEVE BAINBRIDGE
This is not the first time heavy traffic has caused problems for the residents of the narrow lane, and they are now calling for something to be done.
Mary-Louise Harding, 28, of Dulverton Cottages, said: "We are pretty cheesed off and sick to the back teeth of it. Warren Lane is only narrow and doesn't have a footpath but it is the main route to the zoo and the tip, so we get queues of cars and lorries thundering past all day.
"We want to see a bypass built so that Warren Lane can become what it should be, a quiet lane."
Miss Harding explained that at one time postal workers stopped delivering letters to the lane for fear of the heavy and fast-moving traffic.
Terri Washbourne, 59, also of Dulverton Cottages, describes the road as "a hazard".
She added: "We get huge juggernauts just 12 inches from our fence, its ludicrous."
Published Wednesday, May 28, 2003
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