WORCESTERSHIRE Highways has moved a sign after a city resident highlighted it as being dangerous, saying it was helping to block the view for motorists of oncoming traffic on the A4440.

Concerned resident ‎Les Wiltshire criticised Worcestershire Highways saying the sign, alerting drivers to a night closure, had been positioned in a place blocking the view onto the busy dual carriageway.

He also pointed out the view was already restricted with the large street sign there, and a line of lampposts as well as cones.

But after the Worcester News contacted Worcestershire County Council, a spokesman for the authority said the yellow sign was moved from the position, at the junction of the A440 and Walkers Lane on Monday morning.

Posting a picture on a Facebook group over the weekend, Mr Wiltshire said: “Nice one Worcestershire Highways, this is the drivers eye view as you exit Whittington village onto the A4440, Swineshead Way.

“These people look after our roads - not a clue.

“You can barely see the oncoming traffic for the cluttered signage, it would be very easy to miss a motorcycle here.

“This has been turned into a dangerous junction.”

Stressing he took the picture from a parked car on Walkers Lane, Mr Wiltshire added: “The lamp posts alone causes visibility problems, in my opinion they are too close to the carriageway.

“Even without the yellow sign, the line of new streetlights doesn’t help the field of vision.

“There appears to be no provision for a footpath either and as the children from the Whittington Walk development will presumably go to Whittington school, are they expected to walk along the side of the A4440.”

Commenting on the Spotted Worcester post, Nigel Addison added: “It’s not highways usually responsible but some second rate company paid to close roads, erect signs and install temporary traffic lights.”

The large street sign at the site, that informs motorists of the turn offs for the roundabout as they approach it has been there for a number of years but a picture taken by a Google Street View vehicle in 2012 shows the much less cluttered scene.

A Worcestershire County Council spokesman said: “Jon Fraser (highways manager at the authority) has been out there and moved the yellow sign.

“That one has been up for a few days but will be going altogether on Tuesday anyway when the night closures are completed.”