A MAN has appealed for the council to do something about a problem roundabout after a car smashed into his garden wall.

Ian Dick was woken at 8.30am on Saturday when a car was sent spiralling into his wall after an accident at a mini-roundabout on St Peter’s Drive.

The mini-roundabout, which sits on the junctions of Rainthorpe Avenue and Eden Close with St Peter’s Drive, has been the site of several accidents since it was put in about three years ago.

But this latest one has really scared Mr Dick because of what could have happened. Speaking at St Peter’s and Battenhall’s PACT (partners and communities together) meeting, Mr Dick, of Rainthorpe Avenue, St Peter’s, said: “It was 8.30am on a Saturday morning. Had it been 8.30am on a week day there are lots of children with their parents walking to school, we would have been looking, I think, at a really bad outcome.

“Obviously, my main concern is for my wall – but what if the wall had not been there? The car would have been in my lounge.”

The problem is believed to stem from a few different issues – the white line on Rainthorpe Avenue being too far back to allow drivers a clear view of St Peter’s Drive and bad sign posting.

Fellow Rainthorpe Avenue resident Steve Tarbox added: “As residents we are aware that it is not just one or two incidents. Since the roundabout’s implementation there have been many.

“The rules are not being observed – it is becoming quite a serious concern.”

Local county councillor Michael Cairns said Worcestershire County Council had no record of a single incident occurring at the roundabout – despite the police tape which currently surrounds Mr Dick’s wall.

He told St Peter’s Parish Council, where the matter was also raised, that he would look into it.

Coun Cairns said: “If we were aware of this we would have done something about it. As far as the council is concerned there have been no accidents, but now it has been mentioned I will investigate.”

A Worcestershire County Council spokesman said: “The council has not been informed of any notifiable accidents at that roundabout in the last five years and there are currently no plans to carry out a safety assessment.

“It was installed as part of the planning conditions when the Baptist church was built, in line with the regulations at the time and also served as a means of slowing traffic along that stretch of road, which had been raised as a concern by the parish council at the time.”