Calls For Safety Of Our Roads To Be Priority

Checking our roads are safe to drive on is just as vital as the care taken by people behind the wheel.

That's the message from a Chester-Le-Street woman who lost 5 members of her family in a crash two years ago.

Three generations of Ann Walker's family were killed after their car collided with a lorry on the Grimsby stretch of the A18 in 2013.

Ann says although drivers need to take care behind the wheel - the road itself needs to be safe too.

"All drivers have their own duty of care on the road anyway, it comes down to speed limits and things like that, but I do think that there are a lot of roads that are getting missed, overlooked. The driver has a duty of care to themselves and their family. The highways should have a duty of care too."

Ann is sharing her story during Road Safety Week.

The department of transport claim almost 300 people were killed or injured seriously in our region last year

Ann and her nephew Dean Cockburn are now calling for an independent public inquiry after the deaths.

You can read more about it here