Special Report: Families plea to council over living on "Birmingham's most dangerous road"

Mum of Six Nayla Hussain with daughters Ellen and Rose
Mum of Six Nayla Hussain with daughters Ellen and Rose

WITH six children aged 18 or under, mum Nayla Hussain is terrified every time her family steps outside their house on “Birmingham’s most dangerous road”.

The family lives just yards into the start of Tyburn Road, in Erdington, where motorists come off the 50mph Aston Expressway at Spaghetti Junction on to a 40mph road, lined with semi-detached houses.

And when it rains, widow Mrs Hussain claims her front drive becomes an accident blackspot.

In the latest crash, on Sunday, her 17-year-old daughter Ellen escaped being hit by inches.

But her neighbour was knocked over while she rang 999 and is recovering in hospital with three broken ribs.

A Vauxhall Zafira ploughed into Mrs Hussain’s parked Ford Focus and front wall before rolling over on to its side at shortly before 7am on Sunday.

A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said that while a female resident was phoning emergency services from the pavement, a second car, a Renault Megane, then crashed into Vauxhall, injuring her. It is the same spot where two deaths occurred within four days last year.

On August 7, 2010 driver Susan Brueton, aged 28, of Holdgate Road, Weoley Castle, died from multiple injuries after her Vauxhall Corsa crashed into a lamppost outside Mrs Hussain’s house.

The trainee nurse and mum-of-two, who, an inquest heard, was travelling between 52 and 59mph in damp conditions, died days before 43-year-old motorcyclist Mark Ferlance, from Nechells.

Mr Ferlance was killed when he careered into the gates of metal working firm TNA, almost directly opposite.

There have been two other deaths elsewhere along the road.

Mrs Hussain, whose husband died three years ago and has children Rose, aged four, Danish, ten, Diana, 13, Zara, 15, Ellen, 17 and Dean, 18, said: “I am worried every time my children go out.

“I won’t let them play in the street as I am always scared with this road that a car will mount the pavement again and kill them.

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