RESIDENTS have expressed alarm at the latest crash on a narrow Clydebank street where a car overturned with a woman and child inside.

Two vehicles were involved in a collision on Faifley Road at around 12 noon on Saturday, near the junction with John Burnside Drive.

But former Faifley Community Council chairwoman Claire Marshall warned residents were not being listened to over concerns with the road.

She named Councillors Lawrence O’Neill and Jim Finn, and Faifley Community Council as not doing enough to tackle parking on the road causing serious safety issues.

Ms Marshall said: “Since June 2016 we, the people of Faifley, have been complaining about parking on Faifley Road and how dangerous this is.

“That’s five years you have had to fix this problem, yet you have done nothing.

“The people of Faifley deserve better. This week alone three cars have been hit and one car overturned with a woman and a four-year-old girl in it, who thankfully have been hospitalised and not something a lot more serious.

“Are you waiting for a fatality before you listen to us?

“Faifley was built in the 1950s when you were lucky if the whole of Clydebank had the amount of cars that are currently parked on Faifley Road.”

Ms Marshall accused officials of being more focused on the new shared school campus plan for Faifley than the added traffic that would bring to Faifley Road “causing our children serious safety issues before they even step inside the school gate”.

She added: “I urge you all now to take action as the people of Faifley won’t go away. We demand answers to this problem and we demand them now before it’s too late.”

Ms Marshall said there had been previous proposals such as removing grass verges along Faifley Road to convert into parking. There are also former garages behind a property in Faifley Road she said could be used for parking.

A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council said: “We work in partnership with Police Scotland and following any road traffic incident receive an assessment of the cause and thereafter will hold a joint meeting to determine if any additional measures are required on site.”

Cllrs Finn and O’Neill, and Faifley Community Council, were approached for comment but had not responded by the time this issue of the Post went to press on Tuesday afternoon.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We received a report of a two-car crash on Faifley Road, Clydebank, around 12pm on Saturday, July 31.

“There were no serious injuries and the road was reopened.”