PEOPLE living near a damaged bridge near Upton say they have been waiting for nearly ten months for it to be repaired.

Steve Lakin said locals were worried the road across the bridge was dangerous after a wall on the bridge was knocked down in a crash.

The unnamed road is near to Mill Bank Farm Road, Newbridge Green.

Mr Lakin said: "There's just a big drop into the water.

"It's a particularly bad bridge because you can't really see from either side so we've previously seen a couple of head-on crashes there.

"With no wall there now, you've got nowhere to go."

"Cars come too fast down there.

"It's just really dangerous. There's nothing stopping them from going off the bridge straight into the water.

"I don't know why it's taken so long. It's been nine or ten months."

Mr Lakin said people living nearby had thought it was going to be repaired in May - but that hadn't happened.

He believes the wall was originally damaged by a tractor.

He said: "They were going to come for three weeks and I don't know what happened. We haven't had any notification."

However, Worcestershire County Council said the bridge would be repaired in a few weeks.

A spokesman said: "This repair work was put back to ensure that there was no interference with nearby water mains.

"The work has been rescheduled to begin in August."