A man who suffered massive injuries in a road accident has called for urgent action to prevent the blackspot claiming any more victims.

Don Cameron's car swerved off Worcester Road, Evesham, last month and collided with the same tree which had claimed the lives of two brothers less than a year earlier.

His injuries included six broken ribs and a fractured pelvis. Both thighs were crushed, his knees had to be rebuilt and his feet were also extensively damaged.

From his hospital bed in Pershore this week he admitted: "I am very lucky to be alive. If it wasn't for the help of the emergency services and the medical staff at the hospitals, I would no doubt be another road death statistic by now."

And he said: "Why do the highways authority not just level this road instead of leaving it undulating the way it is now? It has been a problem for motorists as long as I have known it."

Mr Cameron, 59, a ceramics manufacturer from Pershore, had dropped off his wife at her Evesham workplace and was driving to his own premises in Fladbury at about 8am on January 3.

He said: "I had passed Tesco and came up behind a white van. I eased off, thinking I wasn't in a hurry. I thought I was going to sneeze and then the next thing I knew I was straight into the tree."

It took firefighters using special cutting gear delivered by air ambulance almost 90 minutes to release Mr Cameron, who was then flown to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham accompanied by a doctor. Doctors had joined paramedics at the scene as Mr Cameron, who remained conscious throughout, was treated while firefighters fought to free him.

After a week in intensive care, Mr Cameron was eventually moved to Pershore Community Hospital where he is now undergoing extensive physiotherapy.

"I would just like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped me from the time of the accident - the firefighters who managed to get me out, the people who treated me at the scene and all the doctors and nurses at Selly Oak and here at Pershore who have all been absolutely brilliant. I couldn't have got this far without them.

"I still think something more than just putting down posts has to be done to make this road safer for all who use it."

Lee Shrimpton, spokesman for the county council's highways department, said when the police accident investigation had been completed the findings would be passed to council accident investigators.

He said "All the options will be considered, including levelling the road."

The area will also feature prominently in a county-wide survey of speed limits currently being carried out.