A FORMER Mayor has vowed to continue his campaign for improved road safety at a spot where a widow was killed.

Retired civil engineer and former Harrogate mayor George Crowther is leading calls for improvements at the exit to Safeway's store in the town.

His campaign follows the death of 91-year-old Hilda Slee, who was hit by a car in Victoria Avenue in January.

An inquest last month recorded an accidental verdict on Mrs Slee, of Hookstone Chase, Harrogate.

Mr Crowther has been trying to secure changes to the exit since the store opened a decade ago.

He has attempted to persuade the local council, whose planning committee he once chaired, to look at providing a new exit onto Station Parade so drivers enter and leave the site by the same street.

Highways engineers have responded by promising a pedestrian island in the middle of Victoria Avenue and a meeting involving police, Safeway staff and council officials in a bid to improve pedestrian safety.

Mr Crowther said the measures were not enough.

He said: ''I will carry on my fight for a proper and responsible long-term solution.

"Having a new entrance from Station Parade, and using the current one as the exit, would be both practical and economical and would have operational advantages to Safeway and its customers."