FRIGHTENED residents on a busy Kidderminster road claim joyriders using it as a racetrack will kill someone unless traffic calming measures are introduced.

It comes after the third accident in three years in which speeding cars have crashed through garden walls or hedges on Hoo Road.

On Wednesday, October 31, four teenagers were taken to hospital after the Vauxhall Nova they were travelling in collided with a Ford Fiesta which failed to stop.

The Nova ploughed into two parked vehicles and demolished two garden walls in the incident at the Aggborough Crescent junction at 9.40pm.

A 15-year-old girl from Redditch needed an operation on her knee and a 14-year-old Kidderminster boy needed plastic surgery for cuts to his wrist.

Brian Porter, 66, of Hoo Road, whose garden was showered with broken glass, said: "Someone is going to get killed unless something is done. We've been calling for traffic calming for years."

He said the grey Vauxhall Nova went out of control and ploughed into a van, shunting it through a next door neighbour's garden wall.

It then sped on to his lawn before colliding with a red Saab 900, pushing it through his other neighbour's garden wall.

He added two years ago a car which was speeding along the road went out of control and tore through a conifer hedge before smashing into a house. The year before another speeding car also smashed through a garden wall.

He said: "I don't like to think what destruction would have been caused had this latest incident happened when people were walking back after a Harriers match."

Lib Dem ward councillor Peter Dyke said: "I understand the people involved in this accident were travelling at excessive speed and this is what can happen.

"My wife and I are well aware of the situation and I have contacted the Highways Partnership Unit to ask them to do something about it.

Unfortunately, traffic calming is not something that happens overnight. But with the new development on the college site there is the likelihood of traffic calming."