THE New Forest verderers have asked Hampshire County Council to consider placing pinch points along an accident blackspot route near Burley.

They are desperate for traffic calming measures along the C10 road at the top of Vereley Hill and at the Foulford car park near Picket Post.

Verderers' clerk Sue Westwood said: "It's a very bad road for animal accidents. We have had a couple of nasty ones up there."

And only a few weeks ago a pony suffered three broken legs in a road traffic accident at this spot.

Pinch points are being put in place through the village and down through Burley Street after parish councillors complained about drivers speeding through Burley.

A spokesman for Hampshire County Council said: "The scheme is part of a partnership with the parish council addressing their concerns."

The traffic calming measures agreed on consist of two pinch points in Ringwood Road and three pinch points in Pound Lane similar to those further along the road between Burley and Bransgore.

However, Sue Westwood said: "What the verderers are concerned about is that drivers who have to slow down through the village because of the pinch points will speed up once they are out of the village."

HCC installed test equipment that showed one driver speeding at 71mph around a sharp bend in the village.

This speed was recorded in the 30mph zone near the former Burley Street post office.

In addition, speeds of 66mph were recorded in Pound Lane, a built-up area with lots of elderly people and children.

The tests were conducted using recorder strips after residents complained at recent parish council assemblies about speeding drivers.

Parish council chairman Roger Hutchings said: "There is not enough traffic through Burley to warrant speed cameras and road humps were considered too dangerous.

"Pinch points already on the road between Thorney Hill and Burley have proved an acceptable way of slowing traffic."

The traffic calming schemes have been backed by the Forestry Commission.

A spokesman said: "Generally, we would support anything that's going to make the Forest a safer place."