A mum says she won’t allow her nine-year-old daughter to play in the front garden of her home because it is too dangerous.

Vehicles have nearly hit Sarah Johnson’s house in Hope Street, Sheerness, numerous times with around a dozen smashes outside this year alone.

As a result, the 38-year-old will not let Sinead play outside for fear the youngster will get hit by a car crashing on to the lawn.

Miss Johnson, who has lived in her home for 17 years, said: “There was one accident between a bus and a car, which came into my garden and took my bush out.

“Another was a taxi and a car. I was standing in my kitchen and I heard this big smash and it had knocked into my shed wall.”

In the most recent accident last Wednesday, a grey Ford Focus and silver Vauxhall Vectra collided at the junction where Hope Street meets New Road and Broad Street.

A disabled man was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, although neither he or the woman driver of the other vehicle were seriously injured.

Miss Johnson is now calling for improvements to be made to the junction, including repainted lines on the junction and 20mph speed restrictions.

She added: “Where it says there’s a junction there the lines have faded and drivers are just speeding across, going too fast.

“What is it going to take for the council to do something? Someone getting killed?”

People living along Hope Street and Broad Street have also blamed changes to the layout of New Road a number of years ago for making the junction so dangerous.

Kent County Council’s Highways department widened the pavement of New Road, meaning cars have to park further out in the street, leading to visibility issues.

One resident said: “I reported the problem with this junction to KCC over a year ago – they sent an engineer to investigate and concluded it was safe.

“Since then, I know of at least two other accidents that have happened there and witnessed countless near miss incidents.

“The effect of widening the path forces cars out to the middle of the road to see past the parked cars, by which point it is too late for crossing cars to avoid a collision.”

A KCC spokesman said: “The junction has had one recorded injury crash within the last three years, this occurred in 2012.

“As part of our casualty reduction strategy, this site would not be considered a site where engineering measures would provide a solution and currently we are therefore not seeking to implement any engineering measures through our casualty reduction funding.”

He added that some 95% of crashes in Kent last year were attributed to driver error.