People in Brize Norton say they have been calling for months for traffic calming measures on a stretch of road where two people died.

Corporal Lee Heads, 30, based at RAF Brize Norton, and his partner Senior Aircraftswoman Claire Boulter, 26, of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, died in a car crash on the Brize Norton to Carterton road, close to the entrance to RAF Brize Norton, on June 24.

Two other servicemen from the base, Sergeants Mark Peilesl, 28, and Keith Chapman, 30, were injured.

Work started earlier this year on a link road between Carterton and the A40, which is expected to take traffic away from the centre of Brize Norton. But the chairman of Brize Norton Parish Council, Shane Rae, said: "We've been asking the county council for months for traffic calming, speed restrictions, and better signing on the road from Carterton into the village.

"On other approaches and in the centre of the village there is traffic calming, but not on the road from Carterton, which I find incredible.

"The speed limit both in Carterton and Brize Norton is 30mph, but unrestricted on this road in between."

He said 400 people had signed a petition calling for action after a previous accident.

Mr Rae added: "All we've had back from the county council is there is no money. The new road may take some traffic away from the village, but others may use it as a rat run."

Witney MP David Cameron took the matter up with the county council the week before the accident.

The council's executive member for transport David Robertson said: "We get inundated with requests for traffic calming and we can't meet the needs of every town and parish council."