A community councillor who fell into the road and injured herself last week said pedestrians in Furnace take their “lives in their own hands”.

On Friday, 23 July, Cllr Alison Swanson was crossing the road between the car park and Dyfi Furnace when she fell into the road breaking her left humerus, as well as injuring her head and hands.

Cllr Swanson said the “ongoing issue” of constant fast traffic and the blind bend leading off the bridge, where many people cross to access the Dyfi Furnace, creates danger for pedestrians.

She added: “The only reason I wasn’t run over was because there was another accident further up the road.”

The traffic had been stopped after a road traffic collision took place outside Furnace, towards Tre’r Ddol, on the A487. The road was closed at around 1.30pm.

Police, ambulance and air ambulance crews attended the road traffic collision, between two vehicles, and one patient was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

“It’s so busy in normal circumstances, we have hundreds of visitors, but at the moment it is phenomenal the amount we have.

“If you stand across the road, it’s two blind corners; you cannot see the traffic coming. Coming into those bends, the locals and the lorry drivers know they have to slow down, but the holiday makers don’t know this – they come flying round.

“Every time somebody crosses that road they take their life in their own hands.

“The traffic was coming, constantly, and I thought I’m never going to cross this road. Like anybody else, you try to cross the road as quick as you can. I think I went so quickly, leaning forward, and went head first into the middle of the road.

“I am so cross about it because the Ysgubor-y-Coed community council has been campaigning for years and so has Ceredigion MP Ben Lake, and Mark Williams before him.

“We’ve had big campaigns, we’ve been on the telly, and yet the Trunk Road Agency still isn’t taking it seriously.”

Cllr Swanson said campaigns for better road safety measures go back as far as the 1940s, when minutes record the community council discussing the need for pavements.

She added the community council has sent numerous letters to the Welsh Government, asking previous transport minister Ken Skates MS to visit the site, but they “take no notice”. Ceredigion MS Elin Jones and Ceredigion County Council leader Cllr Ellen Ap Gwynn have also been in touch with the community council.

Cllr Swanson said they have asked for road calming measures such as speed bumps either side of the bridge and at pinch points from Furnace to Glan Dyfi, signs at the end of the village, as well as pavement links from Furnace to Eglwys Fach and to Glan Dyfi.

A Welsh Government spokesperson said: “We have commissioned scoping work for a footway next to the A487 in Furnace and Eglwysfach. We are also looking at the need for other measures, such as signage and road markings, to help motorists comply with the speed limit.”