REISDENTS helped divert traffic after a car crash at the traffic blackspot that killed a pensioner in May.

A Seat and a black Kia collided on the Albert Road and Highmoor Road junction at 4pm this afternoon.

Two people have been taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital but their condition is unknown.

Fiona Pringle, was one of the people who helped police divert traffic away from the scene.

"My friend was driving and I told them to drop me here.

"There were already members of the public trying to get people out of the Seat.

"It is just the same place as the fatality. We need better signage for this junction but the council have no money.

"It was quite scary diverting traffic because some people are aggressive and some don't want to give way."

Ms Pringle is a member of the Highmoor and Albert Road Campaign (HARC) which wants improved safety measures around the junction.

She said Reading Borough Council has no money to improve the junction but have said they will repaint the road markings.

Reading East MP Rob Wilson was on the scene and said: “We have been campaigning for several years.

"HARC has been particularly active since the fatality and has come up with a proposal which is backed by 90 per cent of local resident which is a raised table.

“I have written to the council and Tony Page a number of times stating that the road needs to be safer.”

A 72-year-old male pedestrian was struck and killed while walking on the pavement at the junction in May, a week after an elderly couple and family escaped uninjured from a crash at the same crossroads.