RENEWED calls to cut heavy traffic on the main A48 route snaking through Chep-stow and past the busy Bulwark junction have followed another serious accident.
In the latest incident a trailer full of cattle being towed by a tractor plunged into a roadside garden half way up the hill.
"Only a matter of 15-20 minutes later I would have been in that exact spot taking my young son to play school," said mother Mrs Sally Rall.
"The other residents here say they have had enough. There has been talk of de-trunking the road to remove heavy lorries and creating a bypass but the traffic just gets worse and worse.
"The road is very narrow with some sharp bends people can't see round and it has a busy junction with Bulwark where people take risks.
"I have watched traffic really speeding down the hill almost every day. It is terrifying."
Traffic was interrupted for several hours while the trailer was removed from the road, which is the main route to the old Severn Bridge for people travelling east towards Bristol and London.
Lorries are also known to use the A48 rather than the bridge as a route into South Wales which avoids paying bridge tolls.
De-trunking plans have been in the pipeline for some time but have been held up on the Gloucester section while the county council and the Highways Agency work out who is responsible for urgent work and ongoing maintenance.
Plans to create a by-pass cutting through Bulwark to avoid the town centre have been on the shelf for several years.