A petition has been launched to fix a "dangerous" cycle lane after "three serious accidents in a year".

An online campaign by local cycling group SPOKES claims the point where Water Lane meets Lower High Street in Watford is putting cyclists at risk.

It claims that "90% of drivers" turning right into the one-way street fail to stop or look right, so do not spot bikes in the cycle lane coming towards them.

Adding that there have been at least three serious accidents in the last year, the group apparently fears that more are likely unless action is taken.

SPOKES chair Peter Jackson said: “Many drivers don’t stop but roll forward without looking as they may not realise that they are about to cross a cycle lane.

“I myself have ended up in hospital after a motorist hit me without looking. A fellow cyclist recently suffered serious injuries including spinal fractures.

“I have been trying for over six months now to get police enforcement of stop line compliance at the junction, without success.”

SPOKES has now entered a petition on the Hertfordshire County Council website calling for agreed improvements to be made a “priority scheme” for funding.

The proposed changes would apparently improve sight lines and make it more obvious that vehicles need to stop.

Liberal Democrat county councillor Stephen Giles Medhurst said: “It's beyond doubt that the junction of Water Lane and the High Street is dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists.

See the petition here

“I was pleased to persuade the county council to design and consult on a scheme that improves it.

“However, although this was agreed and oven ready a year ago, it has still not been delivered.”

A Hertfordshire County Council spokesperson said: “The petition has been uploaded to the website in line with our petitions scheme and if it attains the required signatures it will be presented and considered by the council."

Under the council’s petition scheme, it will need 250 signatures to be considered by the cabinet or a cabinet panel and 1,000 to be considered by full council.

At time of writing it is at 83 signatures.