Residents who claim their village is blighted by speeding traffic are campaigning for a mini-roundabout to be introduced.

A petition in shops in Oakenshaw, Bradford, has attracted nearly 300 signatures after a week and a half and it has now been submitted to the highways department at Kirklees Council.

David Rhodes, chairman of the Oakenshaw Residents’ Association, said drivers abuse the speed limit in Bradford Road, which brings traffic from the motorway’s Chain Bar junction with the M606 through the village.

Residents complain of motorists travelling at speeds of 50mph in the 30mph zone. Mr Rhodes said the residents’ group was acting because the issue was always the longest-debated item at its meetings.

He said: “A mini-roundabout at the bottom of Wyke Lane at the junction with Bradford Road would be a physical barrier for traffic coming off the motorway and heading through the village at speeds of 50mph.”

He said he was worried about the dangers of speeding wagons, whose drivers used the road to get to industrial estates in the south of Bradford. Twenty-two HGVs passed the junction with Wyke Lane in the short time it took for the Telegraph & Argus to take a photograph, said Mr Rhodes.

Peter Linfoot, 78, a resident of Bradford Road for 46 years, said: “It’s a diabolical situation. We are very vulnerable where I live. In December my car was parked on the road and it was hit by a speeding driver – three cars were written off, and my garden wall was knocked over on another occasion.”

Mr Linfoot’s previous car was also a write-off when it was hit while parked on the street. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a tragic accident,” he said.

His wife, Barbara Linfoot, 73, said: “The flashing 30mph warning sign never goes out. I’ve lived here for so long and don’t feel we should have to move to get away from the problem.”

A spokesman for Kirklees Council said highways officers were not in a position to comment until they had reviewed the residents’ petition.

Inspector Tim Holland, of Spen Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “I’m aware that there has been some issues in the past of sporadic incidents of speeding but it has never been brought to my attention as a long-term issue, but anything that would make the road ‘visually’ slower, I think would be of help.”