HUNDREDS of worried residents are racing against time to stop speeding drivers before someone is killed.

Folk living on four roads in the Sutton Park area of Kidderminster - Stretton Road, Poplar Road, Greatfield Road and Tomkinson Drive - have launched petitions calling for road safety measures.

Tomkinson Drive residents are "fearing the worst" after a car hit a tree and swerved into a garden fence in front of an empty house where children regularly play football. Celia Farago and Jayne Hollyoak with other residents and children in Tomkinson Drive.

Irene Pugh, 66, said: "They always race around here. You can hear them speeding round even at one or two in the morning. Something needs to be done - it is getting worse and the little children don't have a chance."

Celia Farago and Jayne Hollyoak said they had "had enough" and 200 residents have signed their petition calling for speed bumps.

Mrs Farago, 41, said: "You can't stop the kids from going out and everyone agrees with that. We need road humps especially with the bend at the top of the road because it's a blind spot."

Peter Carter, Sutton Park ward councillor on Wyre Forest District Council has received the petition, and has sent it on to Worcestershire County Council's transportation and road safety manager.

He has already received a petition from Stretton Road and presented it to the Highways Forum where residents were given the chance to state their case.

He said: "This is becoming more than a local problem - it's all over Wyre Forest.

"Something has got to be done in conjunction with the police to ensure that the traffic is governed to keep the respectable speeds."

"The police have got to put more time in on this because we've got a lot of kids doing dangerous wheel spins, showing off, driving dangerously fast and using the roads as a race track - we want some law enforcement."