SORT out the problems before it's too late. That is the message residents on a busy Eastleigh main road are sending to councillors. Speeding traffic and pot holes along Twyford Road are causing misery for the people who live and work on the road - which is a major route to and from the M3 motorway.

One couple have even taken their campaign to the Internet by setting up a website calling on others to fill in a petition to get speed reducing measures put along the road. Rebekah McGill and partner Steve Gosling decided to launch a petition after three accidents within a fortnight - all outside their front door.

These calls for action come after the Daily Echo reported how Hampshire MEP Chris Huhne, Councillor Chris Thomas and Eastleigh MP David Chidgey were campaigning for the surface of Twyford Road to be improved.

Mr Gosling created the Internet site - www.twyfordroad.co.uk - so residents can download a petition to lobby councillors about the need for safety measures.

He said: "We know there are limited funds but we are pursuing this because we cannot wait for a severe accident to justify action."

"The 50 responses we've had will be sent to the Eastleigh Local Area Committee."

Fellow resident Ruth Hammond said: "Speed is a real problem on this road and it doesn't help when people who work in the town park along the road all day."

An Eastleigh Borough Council spokesman said: "A comprehensive traffic and road safety study at Twyford Road has been undertaken and revealed that traffic speeds were higher than expected in the northern section of the road.

"As a result the council will be constructing a gateway - a method of restricting the width of the road - near the roundabout junction with Woodside Avenue and Allbrook Way to reduce traffic speed.

"Thirty mile-an-hour speed limit signs will also be re-positioned to make the speed limit more visible for drivers coming off the roundabout, into Twyford Road."

The spokesman added: "The police have also been asked to look at the enforcement of the speed limit in Twyford Road but so far there are no other plans for traffic calming measures."