MOTORISTS are continuing to see red over one of the town's most notorious accident blackspots -- now claiming that the road has been turned into a patchwork quilt full of potholes.

Furious Denise Gleaves, who travels the road four times a day from her home at The Beeches, off Belmont Road, has slammed North West Water for adding to the dangers already voiced by local road users.

She claims the water company has left large holes and ruts in the road surface which fill with water and become invisible to motorists.

NWW carried out a pipe replacement just a mile from Belmont village in the last few months.

Mrs Gleaves, who takes her five-year-old daughter to nearby Belmont Primary School, said: "It's a real mess. They have finished the maintenance work but the road has not been put back properly.

"It's been more than two weeks now and still nothing has been done.

"My husband, Brian, travels the road everyday and agrees that it is very dangerous. He has seen many accidents since he started travelling to work that way 20 years ago.

"Motorists should realise that it is not a motorway. I would not like it to be turned into a major trunk road -- it's still a country road, but it is a dangerous road.

"These big holes and poor quality of tarmac, which is crumbling away, is not helping matters."

As reported in the BEN, chairman of Bolton's Round Table Barney Wharton-Jones is campaigning for a safer road surface after he was involved in an accident on the A675 last year.

He has been inundated by callers telling of their accident experiences on the lethal road which has seen 47 casualties, including death and serious injury, in the past two years.

The local man is compiling a dossier in a bid to sue Blackburn Council to repair the road.

North West Water have held up their hands and admitted that the road surface has not been re-instated properly.

A spokesman for North West Water blamed the recent bad weather for delaying road repairs.

A spokesman said: "The weather has caused us many problems. We do apologise and we will be returning to carry out repair work within the week. Everything is in hand."