A mum has started a petition for resurfacing following a three crashes in six days on a notorious road.

Debbie Blackman’s husband Anthony is lucky not to have been seriously injured after losing control of his Renault Megane on Main Road, near the Waterside Caravan Park in St Lawrence.

He hit black ice on a damaged patch of the road, span 180 degrees and his car flipped over into the ditch at about 7.20am on Thursday, March 5.

Five minutes later, a 19-year-old driver hit the same patch of ice and her car ended up in the hedge on the opposite side of the road Just minutes after that, another driver also skidded on the same icy area.

Less than a week earlier, on Friday, February 28, another driver had crashed in the same spot.

Mrs Blackman has now started a petition for the road to be resurfaced and to have a warning sign or speed restriction in place.

An ECC spokesman said: "We are currently showing no defects on Main Road, St Lawrence.

"It was routinely inspected in January and, as a Priority 2 route, will be routinely inspected again in April."