A mum is calling for better road safety measures on a busy junction because she is worried it is an accident waiting to happen.

Victoria Jordan noticed how busy the junction between Beechings Way and Pump Lane in Rainham gets during the school run owing to the number of schools there are in the area.

The Hawthorne Road resident said she used to walk along Beechings Way to take her daughter, aged six, to Thames View Primary School in Bloors Lane, but decided she felt safer taking an alternative route which takes five minutes longer.

She said: "The road is really busy because you've got traffic going up and down Pump Lane because you've got Rainham Mark Grammar School and you've also got a bus stop.

"For people who are walking from Twdyall to Thames View or vice versa, that's the crossing point and it's really precarious, it's very busy.

"My daughter and I now don't walk that way because it is so difficult to cross the road.

"Nobody ever stops for you and personally, given the volume of traffic and the amount of kids that walk that way, it's only a matter of time before there's an accident there with a pedestrian."

She has set up a petition on Medway Council's website, which has so far attracted 69 signatures calling on the authority to install a zebra crossing on the junction.

Click here to sign it. bit.ly/3Fjs9MY

She added: "I think walking to school is just a small thing we can do to help with car emissions, in terms of trying to improve air quality in Rainham.

"The petition is for two things, to try and raise awareness of it and to try and get some support, and possibly encourage the council to try and look at it and look at how they can make it safer."