A YORK man fears there will be a serious accident on a road near his house if action is not taken soon.

Keith Reynolds, 58, said driving on to Huntington Road from Ramsay Close - where there was a new housing development - was a regular nightmare.

He said cars parked right up to the junction in Huntington Road, making visibility impossible and forcing drivers to take a gamble when they nose out into the road.

The situation was made worse because cars parked along Ramsay Close meant there was only space for one car, and drivers were sometimes forced to give way on to the busy Huntington Road.

Mr Reynolds said he had seen ambulance vehicles going to and from the White Cross Court clinic and having to back into Huntington Road.

He said that, despite repeated phone calls to the council, nothing had been done to ease the problem.

He said: "I just want to get some sensible arrangement.

"There should be no car parking at all along Ramsay Close.

"I am frustrated with the council's reaction to this.

"As a taxpayer, they haven't even had the courtesy to ring me back on any occasion."

Peter Evely, head of network management at the council, said contractors were due to put yellow lines back on the Ramsay Close junction, after work to the road earlier this year.

He acknowledged there was "some restriction in visibility" along Huntington Road, but said that the yellow lines would stretch to 25 metres on one side of Huntington Road and 13 metres on the other.

He said: "We are going to monitor the situation.

"But if we move the car parking it will transfer to the new estates.

"If there's any action it will go into the annual review."

Coun Ken King, of Clifton ward, agreed that the road was causing a problem.

He said: "It's very dangerous. I agree with Mr Reynolds.

"When traffic goes into Huntington Road tempers can get quite heated.

"But the whole area wants looking at - rather than tackling the problem piecemeal."

Updated: 08:37 Thursday, November 27, 2003