Two people were killed on Houghton Road within a week of each other in September 2007 and last month 21-year-old Michael Green died in a collision with another vehicle on the road near Houghton.

Cllr Julie Dew said: "I am becoming very concerned about the accidents on this road.
"Mile for mile Houghton Road is having more serious accidents than any other road in the area, including the A14, and that takes some doing.
"We have had several fatalities on this stretch of road and I myself saw the aftermath of an accident involving a car and a motorbike at the Hill Rise junction. Fortunately no one was killed this time.

"With several hundred new houses due to be built and discharge their vehicles onto this road I fear matters could get worse before they get better."
Cllr Dew, who is also the Conservative district council candidate for St Ives West, would like to see the Hill Rise junction widened so that two lanes can be accommodated when cars travelling out of St Ives are turning right. She would also like to see a roundabout introduced at the Sawtry Way junction.

The council does have plans to improve the traffic lights at Hill Rise to cater for the increased traffic from the houses to be built on the old golf club site, but are reliant on contributions from developers building houses on the former site of St Ives Golf Club.

The council said the funding was likely to arrive next year. A traffic light-controlled junction is also to be introduced for the access to the housing development at Houghton Grange.

In 2010, council funding will pay for an east-bound bus lane along the length of the road from Sawtry Way to Hill Rise and a shared cycle and footpath.
The county council recognised the road has one of the worst accident records in the county, but will not be taking substantial action to address this until a speed limit review has been done.

There have been between 10 and 17 accidents on the road each year for the last five years and it is number 10 on a priority list of stretches of A and B roads that need to be reviewed.

A spokesman added: "There is a high accident record on the road and we are concerned about that.
"There are things we are doing at the moment. For example we know that the road is a big biker road and we have targeted bikers using the road. We have gone to speak to them about slowing down and being a bit more sensible."