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• A car driver had an amazing escape last week after a cattle truck became airborne at a notorious accident black spot and landed on his car, The motorist, from Cheltenham, escaped serious injury and was able to climb out of the car with the truck lying on top of it.
Three men in a VW Golf who were caught up in the four-vehicle pile-up, at Nettleton Bottom on the A417 Gloucester-Cirencester road, suffered serious injuries. The truck driver, from South Wales firm MacTaggart, and his passenger escaped unhurt. The driver of the fourth car was slightly injured.
Police say the truck became airborne after colliding with the Goff.
The accident follows a campaign by Cotswold Tory MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calling for urgent work to be done to get rid of the Nettleton Bottom accident black spot, which he calls "a lethal chicane".
The rest of the A417/4419 trunk road between Gloucester and Swindon is dual carriageway, but at Nettleton Bottom,
where the road winds down into a dip, it has been left as a single carriageway, There has been a series of serious and fatal accidents at this point.
Clifton-Brown is backing locals who say the road must be upgraded to dual car riageway or a tunnel built to get rid of the dangerous stretch.
Last year figures were released showing that in the previous four years there were 57 accidents on the single-carriageway section of the A417,three of them fatal.