A £200,000 scheme to make accident blackspot roads safer has been approved.

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has chosen nine schemes that will help to reduce the number of fatal, serious injury accidents and child casualties on its roads.

Between 1998 and 2000 there were more than 100 accidents in the borough.

Now Redcar and Cleveland is set to develop schemes that it believes will maximise its casualty reduction rate.

The speed limit on the A171 from Little Waterfall Farm, outside of Guisborough to Birk Brow is to be reduced to 50mph. Cleveland Police said speed cameras will be introduced to further reduce speed and accidents.

Other changes include improvements to the signing of the uphill and downhill bends on Birk Brow, on the A171 road to Whitby, as well as bend warning signs, chevron boards and a reflective barrier. The speed limit on the bends will be 30mph and the downhill section at the lower bend reduced to a single lane.

Also planned are lane changes on the A174 Kirkleatham roundabout, near Redcar, a cycleway from Greystones roundabout to the Wilton site, changes to the junction layout from the A174 into Lazenby village and footpath alterations.

A safety barrier and road studs will alert motorists to a bend in the road between the village of Newton under Roseberry to the borough boundary with North Yorkshire, while a ghost island is to be created to help people turning right from the A171 into Slapewath village.

There are also plans to reduce congestion at Gurney Street in New Marske.

Councillor Sylvia Szintai, lead member for environment and infrastructure, said: "This has been our primary aim and that is why we are the safest borough in the country. We put whatever money we have into reducing accidents and we have been successful in this."