BOLLARDS put along a busy road to stop lorries turning are being removed after concerns were raised about driver safety.


The bollards were put in along Courtauld Road, Basildon, by Essex County Council, to stop HGVs turning right into a building site.


However, the bollards have been blasted by drivers as no warning signs have been put up about them.


One driver Karen Ormes, 42, from Thundersley, ended up writing off her £7,000 BMW when she tried to overtake a lorry along the stretch.


Her car was launched into the air and crashed into another vehicle in the oncoming lane – yet she escaped with minor injuries, as did the other driver.
Mrs Ormes, who runs Karen’s cafe in Luckyn Lane, Basildon, said: “It was like the Dukes of Hazard – my car lifted off the ground.


“I was driving a BMW and if it wasn’t for the car I was in, I might have had much more serious injuries and I would have had to been cut out.


“It was just me and my husband and thankfully my daughter wasn’t with us in the car.


“We went straight into an oncoming car. The council needs to look at the situation because the road is just an accident waiting to happen.”