Drivers have issued the same plea after a couple died in their car on a flooded Liverpool road.
The couple, Elaine and Philip Marco, died after becoming trapped in their black Mercedes in deep flood water on Queens Drive in Mossley Hill on Saturday, August 26. Those who live and work in the area said the road is notorious for flooding whenever there is torrential rain.
The ECHO previously reported on a woman who had to be rescued from her car after it became stuck in rising flood water in the same spot on Saturday, July 8. The news of Saturday's tragedy has prompted calls from people across the city for action to be taken to alert people to the potential flood risk.
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ECHO reader Sandra Lucky said: "Absolutely tragic. Heads should roll over this devastating incident, it has been flooding under that bridge for a minimum 40 years!"
Judith Wilson said: "There should be warning gates erected to stop cars from going through. They have them near me in St Helens."
Pauline Burns said: "It needs "flood lights" and barriers like the one near the Saints ground until it is fully repaired. Stops people from going near until it's safe."
Ian Moore said: "It needs an automatic bollard at the junctions when it rains heavy. The council can raise them. It’s been like this for years."
Anne-Marie Sherlock said: "The date on the bridge says it all 1926. A nearly 100 year old bridge and no updated safety measures in place, the road should have been closed."
Liberal Democrat councillor Richard Kemp said he believes three courses of action need to be carried out to help prevent future incidents.
He said: "Our infrastructure as a city and as a country isn't designed to deal with the type of massive, almost tropical rainstorms that we now get.
"I've lived in that area for 30 years and we used to say there'd be a reasonably bad incident once every three or four years. We've had three floods already this year. The one we had on Saturday is the worst of any of them."
Cllr Kemp said he has raised the issue of flooding on numerous occasions and drain rodding (a method of unblocking drains) has been carried out, and bushes have been cut back, but a "bigger solution" is needed.
He said: "I'm saying we need to do three things in the short term. We need to improve the lighting there because it's very dark in the winter and it's very easy to go down there and not realise that there's actually water in there."
Cllr Kemp said we also need something that monitors the amount of water underneath the bridge and alerts people with a sign that says "flooding do not enter." He said by taking these measures the council could then look at how to improve the road's infrastructure, which dates back more than 100 years, in the long term.
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