Driver's plea for speed reduction on the A63 after accident that left her stranded for hours

MOTORIST WARNS 'SOMEONE WILL BE KILLED'

- By DEBORAH HALL

A SHAKEN-UP motorist has appealed for a speed reduction on the “crammed” A63 after she was involved in an accident that left her stranded for hours.

Janet Porter, 78, was travelling alone and on the way to see friends when she said a van pulled out in front of her from a slip road. She had to jam on her brakes, narrowly missing the vehicle, but another van behind ran into the back of her.

The mum-of-two, who lives in a village on the East Yorkshire/North Lincolnshire border, said it was lucky no one was hurt but that it could have been “so much worse”.

She said: “I was all right, physically, but it’s more the psychological effects.

“After it happened I was in floods of tears for about ten minutes, and shaking, I was devastated.”

Janet was travelling west away from Hull on Tuesday, May 27, at about 4pm, to go to Leeds when the accident happened at a slip road junction with the dual carriageway, near to the Shell Grand Dale petrol station, at Melton Road, North Ferriby.

Janet said a small white van pulled out “quite slowly” in front of her. “The A63 was crammed with fast-moving cars and lorries.