A series of traffic-calming measures are to be installed in a Gomersal road following the deaths of three teenagers in a horrific crash in September.

Among ideas considered at a meeting of Spen Lane residents, council and police, were increasing the size of existing 30mph signs and painting 'Slow' signs on the road, erecting 'Police - Check your Speed' and junction signs, re-siting chevrons, laying an anti-slip surface in the bend of the road and laying traffic counting 'tubes' on the road.

Around 40 members of Spen Lane Action Group attended the meeting at Spen Victoria Cricket Club to which Spen Councillors Allison Harrison (Lab) and Margaret Bates (Con), PC Paul Walton, from Heckmondwike road traffic police, and Mike Stringer, from Kirklees Highways, were invited.

The meeting was the second of its kind and came after the deaths of Glen Sample, 17, of Yeadon, Jon Tinker, 19, of Huddersfield, and Lee Varley, 19, of Normanton, who were killed when the car in which they were travelling collided with a bus at a stop in the lane.

Deborah Tinker, mother of Jon, welcomed the ideas. "Anything that could be of help after losing our son and two other good family friends' children is bound to be a good thing," she said.

One Spen Lane resident asked if they could have signs informing drivers that the road was an accident blackspot. Mr Stringer said: "In doing anything in Spen Lane you have to do it so that a clear, quick, readable message is given to motorists of what is expected of them. The message you give can't be confusing like strange signs that nobody has ever seen before."

PC Walton agreed with Mr Stringer. "We are talking about a society that looks after number one and number one only. People read the Highway Code to pass their driving test and never look at it again. These days they have to get from A to B as quickly as possible."

Residents asked why speed cameras could not be erected in the road and one said they would pay for themselves in the first week. Mr Stringer said speed cameras were costly and erected at sites with the highest accident rates - and Spen Lane was not one of them. He also said speed humps were not an option because slow-moving traffic would get stuck coming up the hill.

Many complained that lorries unable to climb Spen Bank were getting stuck half way up and that it was only a matter of time before a serious accident occurred when buses and other vehicles were trying to overtake them.

PC Walton agreed to send road traffic officers to patrol Spen Lane if shifts permitted enough time.

One resident wanted HGVs banned from Spen Lane entirely, but Mr Stringer said this was not possible as it would just push them into nearby Cliffe Lane.

The package of measures is to be implemented as soon as possible and another meeting is to be held at the end of January to re-examine the ideas.