A motorist with vast experience of Shalden’s Golden Pot crossroads feels traffic lights are the best way to stop accidents there.

Judith Ineson, of Wooteys Way in Alton, said the Froyle Road turning into New Odiham Road was “on my journey to work for decades”.

She added: “I still use it frequently, and am still anxious every time I do the turning.”

Judith was responding to a Herald article in which Hampshire County Council said it was updating satellite navigation systems with Ordnance Survey to warn side road drivers to give way, and considering a 40mph speed limit.

She said: “I am delighted to see that the safety of the Golden Pot crossroads is under consideration. It is a nightmare for people coming on either of the side roads as the visibility along the main road is very poor.

“However, I was concerned by the phrase ‘making the need to give way on side roads clearer to drivers’. The problem is not that the drivers on the side roads don’t know that they need to give way, it is that they cannot see what is coming along the main road.

“And drivers going north on the New Odiham Road also cannot see what is coming until they top the hill, which can be too late if they are going fast.”

Judith felt solutions needed careful consideration.

She said: “If speed limits are used, then they need to be on the New Odiham Road and they need to be observed.

“A roundabout would be better, but would also have the problem that the drivers going north would not see it until the last minute - it would have to be signed very clearly well in advance.

“To my mind the best solution would be traffic lights. I remember when there were temporary traffic lights there for roadworks a while ago - bliss!”