SEEING a car smash into her baby's pram has made a Cradley mum afraid to walk in her own street.

Now Lucy Walker and her neighbours are demanding improved safety measures on a road they fear will soon be the scene of a fatal accident.

Ms Walker was walking along the bendy B4220 Bosbury Road when a car approached from behind and ploughed into her eight-week-old daughter India's pram, sending her flying into the hedge.

Amazingly India, now 11 months, was uninjured, as was Ms Walker, her son Dylan, now three, who she pulled away from the car, and a friend and her child who were walking with them at the time.

"It was a real scare. Now to go anywhere I've got to put the kids in the car and drive them 150 yards up the road. I don't go out on the open road," she said, describing her reaction to seeing India's pram hit as "hysterical".

"A lorry driver who saw the accident said he thought both children were dead," she added.

It was not the first time Ms Walker has been involved in an accident on the road. When she was eight months pregnant with her son, a car hit her as she walked along the road, throwing her into the hedge, but neither she nor Dylan were injured.

After the second accident, Ms Walker and her partner were so worried about the road they put their home on the market, but have since changed their minds.

However, she is upset that when Dylan starts school, she will not be able to walk him there.

According to Ms Walker, only major safety measures will improve the road. She wants a pavement or a footpath created in an adjacent field to aid pedestrian safety.

Stephen Oates, Herefordshire Council's head of highways and transportation, said a meeting is being arranged with the police and Cradley Parish Council representatives to look at minor improvements such as signing and kerbing.

He said a pavement was unlikely because it was not included in an existing programme of work.

Funding for safety measures at accident sites is prioritised on the basis of the number of personal injuries.

"We'd like to do a lot more if we could but we have to work with the resources we've got," said Mr Oates.