A disabled woman from Llandrindod is calling for a pedestrian crossing to be installed close to Llandrindod Hospital after she was almost struck by a lorry while on her way to an appointment. 

In November Marina Powles was nearly hit by a lorry as she attempted to cross the busy road to the hospital for her appointment. 

Mrs Powles is partially sighted and said: “I didn’t see the lorry, I admit I didn’t see it. I just stepped off the pavement and this lorry whizzed passed me. How it ever missed me, I’ll never know.

“I was shocked to start off with at the time, but then I got really cross because I used to work at the hospital - I’ve worked in Powys for 35 years. 

Now I’m in a situation where my eyesight is going and I’ve also got severe arthritis and I walk with a stick, so I couldn’t walk up to the crossing 

by the museum. 

“ There is another crossing near the school, but I wasn’t able to walk that far either, so all I could do was try and cross the road where I did,” she said.

After her near miss with the lorry, Mrs Powles has been contacting  support groups to see if installing a crossing to the hospital was possible. 

She told The Brecon & Radnor Express: “It seems like an obvious place to put a crossing, even if it’s not a zebra crossing, we could have just one of those ones with an island to make vehicles slow down. At the moment there’s nothing there at all..

“I’ve got a real bee in my bonnet about it. It’s awful just the fact that you can’t have a safe crossing place outside a hospital!”

Councillor Pete Roberts, who represents Llandrindod South said: “The hospital area only came into our ward in May and the issue has not been raised previously with me. 

“The road outside the hospital is a trunk road and not managed by Powys County Council which makes securing safe crossing points more difficult, but not impossible. 

“However it also falls within the area which will be designated as a 20mph limit in the near future so a central island which would have the effect of slowing traffic may be attractive to Welsh Government. 

“I am therefore more than happy to take forward the correspondents concerns with the relevant agencies.”