CAMPAIGNERS have stepped up calls for safety measures after two more crashes on a notorious Radcliffe bend in one week.

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after colliding with a car where Dumers Lane continues onto Bury Street, near Radcliffe Hall Primary School, at 1.45pm on March 4.

The driver, who was on a green Kawaski motorbike, suffered minor injuries and the other motorist, who was driving a Kia Proceed, was not hurt.

On Sunday (March 8) at 12.30pm police were called to another crash at Top o’th’ Cross, further up the same road near Cross Lane.

Two cars collided after a woman lost control of her vehicle coming round the tight bend.

Late last year Cllr Matt Bailey, chairman of governors at Radcliffe Hall Primary, led calls for action after there were at least six smashes in Bury Street in 2014.

In November, a Ford pickup spun 180 degrees after the driver lost control on the sharp corner and skidded into the vacant cooperative building – metre’s from the school’s car park.

Last August, the Radcliffe Times reported on a van which smashed through the front door of a house in Bury Street after the driver lost control on the bend.

Four cars smashed into the garden wall of another Bury Street resident in six months, and a speeding vehicle mounted railings outside Stepping Stones children’s centre.

And in 2014, a car flipped onto its side and hit the bus stop at a second sharp bend at nearby Top o’the Cross.

Campaigners called for better road safety signs warning of the sharp bends, and anti-skid road surfacing on both corners.

Bury Council’s highways department said it intended to provide enhanced warning signs on the approaches to the bends as soon as possible – but so far nothing has been done.

Cllr Matt Bailey said: “We were promised a reinstatement of the anti skid surfacing before Christmas, as well as a signage review at the very least. To date – nothing.”

The campaign was also backed by Reverend Denise Luke, headteacher at Radcliffe Hall.