A ROAD collision which left two people in hospital was on the same stretch of road where a report concluded there were "potential safety problems".

The crash, in Lower Broadheath, happened on Martley Road, where a resident warned last October that "an accident is waiting to happen" during discussions over planning permission for a new house.

The house, which would share a narrow driveway feeding on to the B4204 Martley Road, was given the go-ahead despite the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) report.

Resident Dag Smith, who, with a group of neighbours, commissioned the report, said while the new development did not directly cause Saturday's accident, it showed how dangerous the road could be.

"The accident waiting to happen, as one parish councillor put it during a site visit, has now happened, albeit a short distance away from Sailors Bank where the planning application was made," said Mr Smith, whose own house shares the driveway.

"There are more houses and people where we are compared with where the accident happened. Cars enter the village at speed and go straight down the hill very fast."

The accident on Saturday morning, in which two people were injured, happened outside Kensick Manor Lodge.

Full planning permission was given for the house about two miles further down the road last September after the Highways Authority (HA) installed an electronic vehicle activated speed warning sign.

The RoSPA report stated: "In an era of limited HA budgets, the expenditure would indicate the local concerns are quite justified.

"The operating difficulties and traffic safety problems currently present at the existing site should have been taken into account by the planning authority when discussing the granting of planning approval for additional development at this location."

Malvern Hills District Council said the RoSPA report was fully taken into account during the planning application discussions.