A community has renewed its calls for more safety measures to be introduced on a "dangerous" stretch of road after a popular pensioner was killed in a collision.

Residents and business bosses are demanding a pelican crossing and better lighting on the A658 Harrogate Road, near its junction with Ravenscliffe Avenue.

The call comes after 87-year-old George Hughes was killed when his mobility scooter was in collision with a lorry at an uncontrolled crossing as he tried to get across Harrogate Road to his home in Ravenscliffe Avenue. Mr Hughes has three grown-up children living in Bradford, a son John and daughters Joanne and Doreen. A family member said they were devastated by the tragedy.

The death is the latest in a series of fatalities to have blighted the road in recent years. In February, 2002, a 13-year-old schoolboy died under the wheels of a 36-tonne lorry while out riding his bike in Harrogate Road, near its junction with Ravenscliffe Avenue. In December, 2004, Aiden McGlynn, eight, was killed when he ran out in front of a car as he was on his way to school, again near the junction of Harrogate Road and Ravenscliffe Avenue.

And in December, 2006, 20-year-old Helen Holmes was killed near the same junction when the vehicle in which she was a passenger was in collision with a refuse wagon.

Stuart Suddick, of Ravenscliffe Avenue, said: "A little lad got killed on that bit of road a couple of years ago, there was a young lass killed last Christmas and there have been lots more.

"The council won't listen. Something needs to be done. It should be a pelican crossing and there should be lights."

Mick Kenyon, of Fanfare Newsagents, in Harrogate Road, said there had been far too many collisions on that stretch of road in recent years and demanded action.

His wife, Brenda Kenyon, said there seemed to be somebody killed on the road outside their newsagents every year, adding that there was nearly always a bunch of flowers attached to one of the lamp posts.

A shopkeeper in Harrogate Road, who did not wish to be named, said drivers still treated the road like it was a dual carriageway.

He said: "There's no lights or pedestrian crossing. I have been asking them to do something for years."