New signage for death junction in Long Preston

It follows an order by Craven Coroner Jonathan Heath that action needed to be taken fallowing the tragic death of motorcyclist Thomas Wallace, of Preston.

He died when he fell from his Suzuki and crashed into 74-year-old Anne Jackson's Toyota as she pulled out from her Long Preston almshouses home and turning right towards Long Preston.

North Yorkshire County Council highway's officer, James Malcolm, said a package of measures would be implemented to alert drivers to the junction and to the speed limit which should be completed by the end of the year.

Ideally work needed to be carried out on the junction to improve sight-lines but neighbouring land, he told Craven area committee at its meeting in Settle.

"A conversation has been had with the landowner but they are not willing to to part with any land to accommodate the work," he said.

Pauline Joyce, a trustee of the almshouses, said it was crucial that action was taken to make the junction safer.

"We only hope that the council can find the money to make a compulsory purchase of the land that is needed," she said.

The coroner was told at the inquest by a police collision investigator officer that visibility to the right and left when leaving the almshouses was poor and he had calculated Mr Wallace was travelling at about 42mph as he came round. It was a 30mph limit.

Anyone travelling round the bend at about 30mph was never going to stop in time if they met a vehicle turning out of the junction. For the driver turning out it would be "touch and go" to see someone coming, he told Mr Heath. Mr Wallace's death was recorded as an accident.