Pedestrians are playing ‘Russian roulette’ with their lives at a busy junction due to a lack of safe crossings, a councillor has claimed.

The area sits where Bury Old Road meets Middleton Road and Leicester Road on the boundary of Salford and Manchester, close to Crumpsall Hospital.

Salford councillor Ari Leitner said changes are urgently needed to improve safety and stop people having to ‘dash’ between cars to cross.

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It comes after reports of two girls, both aged 16, being injured on September 6 after an evening collision.

Coun Leitner said he wrote to Salford council in 2022 asking for a review of the junction, but nothing was done.

The problem, he say

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