New roundabout near Kendal could stop ‘heartbreaking accidents’

Westmorland and Furness councillor Janet Battye called for a roundabout to be built where the A5074, the Lyth Valley road, joins the A590.

She said the A590 was “the only way to Barrow, but with the combination of business traffic, holidaymakers and local traffic, if anything happens on that road, everything stops”.

She added that there were crashes on the road every year.

In 2021, four people were seriously injured in a crash involving a car and a cement lorry, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service^[1].

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1. ^{^} Local Democracy Reporting Service (www.bbc.com)