Hi All, Thanks again for your massive response to this petition!!! I am feeling positive that some effective safety changes will occur due to the overwhelming concern that road users, pedestrians and the community as a whole have shown! This is the first email response I received from Cllr John Fillis, Cabinet Member for Highways and transport on 13.9.16. Tomorrow I will post his further response (I can only post one update per 24 hours). Hello Michelle Having lived on top of the junction for 31 years the problem is not the junction, its poor driving. I'm sure like me you will have seen people jumping the lights, cutting across lanes without looking and stacking up behind other cars with no were to go. We will have to wait for the latest police report as to the cause of the accident, but the vast majority of incidents indicates driver error. In the past we have relined the area and changed the sequences of the lights, but the problem keeps coming back to driver error. However there is one step which has been considered but rejected by the public, especial people who live on Cottage Lane, is to shut down the Hassall Lane part of the junction. Which would increase the problems already faced on Cottage Lane and force those on Halsall on Cotton drive area to go round the network. We are already looking at it again and part of which will be a full safety review. Thanks John. Cllr John Fillis Lancashire County Councillor Skelmersdale East Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport Me-In addition here is the link to the second Southport Visitor article I mentioned yesterday, regarding another RTC at the Hayfield junction yesterday 13.9.16. http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/southport-west-lancs/woman-injured-after-another-crash-11880391