Families were celebrating today after winning a long battle to get safety measures in their busy road.

Resident in Parsonage Road, off Sticker Lane, Bradford, have been campaigning for at least three years for action.

The latest road victim in September was schoolgirl Cherub Knowles, 11, who is still on crutches.

The youngster suffered a double fracture to her femur as she walked home at the junction of Sticker Lane and Parsonage Road.

Her father, Brian, licensee of the 147 Snooker Bar, Laisterdyke, said: "I am pleased to see something which will make these roads safer. They are the busiest in Bradford."

Mother-of-three Sharon Mallet collected more than 200 names on a petition asking for a safety scheme. She started gathering names after a child was knocked off her bike.

But other residents had campaigned for years previously.

Bradford North area panel agreed to install a scheme with speed humps at a cost of £10,000, along with a list of other safety schemes across the district.

Ward Councillor John Ryan (Lab, Bowling), who took up the residents' case, said he was pleased by the decision.

But he said he still wanted a survey of the whole area because of the huge increase in traffic.

Coun Ryan said he was especially concerned about the new Phoenix Park Leisure Centre currently being built because it would cause a very large amount of extra traffic.

l A resident who turned up at the meeting, hoping to speak out about his petition, was furious when he was turned away with other people without being given the opportunity.

James Spencer had collected a 147-name petition asking for traffic calming on Moorside Road, Eccleshill. He said the meeting had started half an hour late and after hanging on he was told he could not speak by chairman Coun Bob Sowman. The panel agreed the petition should be included in the next request for traffic calming to be considered.

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