DOUBLE Yellow lines around a dangerous crossroads in Caversham 'fall far short of a complete solution' according to safety campaigners.

The junction between Highmoor Road and Albert Road came under intense scrutiny after 72-year-old Malcolm Langford died in May pushing his wife to safety.

A host of other accidents have seen drivers hospitalised as residents campaigned for improved safety features.

Reading Borough Council's Traffic management Sub-committee approved advertising putting in 100m double yellow lines along Highmoor Road to help keep the junction clear.

However, Mike Johnson of Highmoor Albert Road Campaign called for more to be done to slow motorists along the roads.

He said: "These measures fall far short of a complete solution to the problem at this junction "It is a major traffic dealing with major traffic and cross town drivers, it's also used by a large number of school children.

"Despite the new dragons teeth two drivers have driven through that junction. The proposals to extend them is useful but HARC believe this should be augmented with dragons teeth on all approaches.

"The addition of speed cushions on all approaches would slow traffic and act as an additional warning, giving drivers more time to react."

The committee saw dash camera footage of the cars having to pull onto the wrong side of the road to avoid parked cars before pulling back just before the junction.

The committee decided to begin advertising the installation of double yellow lines running back 100m to Buxton Avenue. A suggestion to reduce the length was turned down.

Cllr Tony Page, chair of the committee said: "It would be easy for us, if we wanted to, to reduce the length at a latter date but we cannot extend it.

"There's no guarantee that we wouldn't get objections to only extending it by 50 metres."

Further traffic control and speed management programmes could be funded by developments in the area.