Abus stop used by people with learning difficulties on a busy road at Milton Heights, near Didcot, has been moved to a safer position.

MEPC, owners of the nearby Milton Park business centre, has offered £10,000 to the county council towards further measures to improve safety for pedestrians on the main road between Wantage and Didcot.

Residents and daily users of the Home Farm Trust at Milton Heights, have been pressing the county council to install a crossing or a footbridge on the A4130. The Home Farm Trust is a residential centre accommodating nearly 50 people.

Activities for residents and day visitors include basic literacy, music, running a coffee shop, and working with local employers. Last year, a resident was knocked down trying to cross the road. Since then many of the daily visitors have stopped using public transport to get to Milton and have been using the trust's own taxi service.

MEPC director John Bateman said the firm had been "dismayed" by the problems for people attending the Home Farm Trust and wanted to help.

The company has offered £10,000 from its roads improvement budget to Oxfordshire County Council, together with the services of the company's consulting engineers, the Glanville Group.

Glanville director Phil Hodgson said: "We are trying to make crossing facilities here a priority with the county council."

Welcoming the offer, the county council's southern area traffic engineer Mark Bostock said: "We have moved the bus stop away from the widest part of the road.

"We are considering putting a pedestrian refuge island in the middle of the road. It would help pedestrians crossing the road and prevent dangerous overtaking.

"The project has to be assessed and we will be talking with Milton Park's consulting engineers so we can move ahead."