Residents in Heaton are calling for action because speeding cars keep crashing into their front gardens.

Pam Nicholas, who has lived in Duchy Avenue for 24 years, said the vehicles demolished her fence and hedges and landed only feet away from her front window.

She is hoping that Bradford Council, which is investigating her complaints, will carry out a traffic survey before somebody gets hurt.

"Over the years it just keeps happening again and again," she said. "Last week I was away but my neighbour heard an almighty bang in the night as a car skid round the corner.

"It shot straight through our neighbour's wall, hit the corner and demolished our hedge.

"The driver ran off and once again we're left to pay for the damage. It first happened in 1976 when a car literally landed a metre away from our front window. One winter because of the ice we had six cars in the same night. Another car hit a tree, spun over and slid half way down the road on its roof before landing in our garden.

"It was midday on a Sunday and police estimated that it could have been doing about 70mph.

"It's such a bad corner and something needs to be done as people just come too fast around it."

Mrs Nicholas, a laboratory technician, said she had written to Bradford Council in a bid to get them to do a traffic survey.

She said bollards that had been put on the road had been knocked over by motorists and never replaced.

"What we really need are some other measures to try and slow drivers down round that sharp corner," she said.

"There are a lot of children who play out in the street and I'm worried they could get hurt.

"One day a car might not stop in the garden and could crash straight through the house. I dread to think what damage a larger vehicle could do."

A spokesman for Bradford Council's highways department said: "Mrs Nicholas has written to us with her concerns which we are investigating.

"We are looking into the accidents that have occurred on Duchy Avenue and the speed the cars travel to see if there is a problem and what can be done."

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