A VILLAGER has described the "carnage" after he saw a group of ducks get mown down by a speeding driver in Hanley Swan.

Duncan Williams, of Blackmore Park Road, was driving home from Worcester at around 8pm on Thursday, June 2, when he saw the car plough into a group of ducks stood at the crossroads of the B4209, killing three.

The incident moved village shop owner Rosalind Davies to kick-start a petition to get traffic calming measures installed along the road - and she has already got hundreds of signatures.

Mr Williams said: "I saw this car coming down at a rate of knots. I thought I had better wait and within the same blink all these ducks came. She just ploughed through the ducks and they went over the roodfand under the wheels."

Mr Williams reported the incident to the police after following and speaking to the driver with another couple.

He said: "All I could see was the carcasses and carnage of these animals. That could have easily bee children feeding the ducks. Something needs to be done about this."

Mrs Davies, who owns Hanley Swan Village Stores, explained it is not the first time ducks - who live around a pond close to the road - have been killed by drivers.

The 62-year-old said: "I was so incensed. Too many times now the ducks have paid the ultimate price. To many times I have be out there picking up dead and dying ducks. It is not nice.

"I do not want anything worse to happen before we put measures in place.

"The volume of traffic through the village is horrendous and it is not going to go away, it is only going to get worse because more and more people drive cars.

"As we as we do have a speeding car that comes into the village, which is brilliant, it can't be there all the time. We do need something here permanently to slow the traffic down.

"I think the time has come to say enough is enough now. In the night and the early morning it is like a race track because it is a dead straight road. It is scary."

Her petition is available at her shop in Robert's End, and online at change.org and search for Hanley Swan.

She will present it to Worcestershire County Council, the Police Comissioner for Worcestershire and Highways England.

A Worcestershire County Council spokesperson said: "We are aware of the recent incident in Hanley Swan and will continue to look into the options available to us."