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# Councillor says road safety figures show why improvements are needed at Lichfield junction
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/councillor-says-road-safety-figures-show-why-improvements-are-needed-at-lichfield-junction/
- Published: 2022-11-27T08:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-28T08:10:45.000Z
- Description: A councillor says road safety figures demonstrate why action is needed at a Lichfield junction where a motorcyclist died.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, Transport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:07, News

A councillor says road safety figures demonstrate why action is needed at a Lichfield junction where a motorcyclist died.

It comes after the Staffordshire Safer Roads Partnership revealed that [220 people were killed or seriously injured](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/campaign-aims-to-help-cut-number-of-deaths-and-serious-injuries-on-staffordshire-roads/) on the county’s roads in the past year.

Cllr Paul Ray, who represents the Chadsmead ward, said he was saddened to see the figure – and insisted it demonstrated why change was needed at the junction where Luke Cotton died in a crash in 2021.

> “The casualty statistics are awful and chilling.  
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> “And here in Lichfield Luke tragically lost his life in a road traffic accident at the dangerous junction of Eastern Avenue and Grange Lane.  
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> “Earlier in the year the campaign to make this lethal junction permanently safe achieved a great success when Staffordshire County Council announced they had allocated £250,000 of funding for the installation of traffic lights.  
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> “That work is to be done by end March 2023, but no date has been given yet.”  
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> Cllr Paul Ray