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Calls to make busy city road safer after a spate of accidents

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Locals in Alexandra Road - which connects Earlham Road with Dereham Road - have called for more traffic calming measures to be added to slow down speeding motorists.

It comes after a series of accidents along the street.

In September last year police were called to reports of a collision that led to a cyclist lying in the road after falling off her bike.

Three months later a drink driver was given a 24-month driving ban for crashing his car into a tree that had been planted on an island in the road.

Alexandra Road has been used as a rat-run in recent years (Image: Newsquest)

Following another incident there two months later, a local councillor has had crunch-time meetings with the County's Highway........

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