A charity feels a road is so dangerous it can no longer pick up one of its disabled clients directly from her home.

Cerebral Palsy Care cannot take wheelchair user Kathleen Gaymer from her home on the B2000 at Cliffe Woods because of lorries thundering past.

Its minibus now has to pick her up 25 yards around the corner because it is too risky to park on the main road.

Keith Moon, the charity’s building and transport co-ordinator, said: “Recently a passing HGV made the minibus shake from side to side.

“It’s a dangerous road and many members who use that bus are particularly vulnerable as they are wheelchair-users. We have to think about the safety of our drivers as well.”

For a year the minibus has been picking up Mrs Gaymer from her Town Road home to take her to the charity’s View Road base.

Now, because of increasing numbers of lorries, she has to wait around the corner at Tennyson Avenue .

Regret

She said: “The bus is supposed to come at 10am, but it can be held up for half an hour because of traffic and picking up other passengers.

“Usually they knock on my door, but now I have to wait outside around the corner.

“This will be a big blow in the winter when I have to wait in cold, wet and windy weather.

“But I don’t blame Cerebral Palsy Care, because the road is dangerous and it’s getting worse. There are now more lorries, some with double trailers.”

Mrs Gaymer, 60, has a muscular condition called fibromyalgia and needs a wheelchair indoors and a mobility scooter outdoors.

She visits the centre every Friday with her husband Dave, 65, who works there as a volunteer.

Mr Moon wrote to the couple telling them the news.

He said: “With regret, it will no longer be possible to collect you from your house.

“As we have a duty of care for the safety of our drivers and passengers we feel it is unsafe to park on the B2000 with the amount of through traffic, especially the HGVs.”

Villagers at Cliffe Woods have complained of an increasing number of lorries on the B2000, making walking, driving, and cycling dangerous.