A ROAD has been branded "an accident waiting to happen" after it was swamped with people parking on the road and on the pavement.

Station Road in Beaconsfield has been besieged with lorries and cars and has become one of the most congested streets in Beaconsfield.

Now police officers have voiced growing alarm at the scale of the problem.

Lorries delivering to the building site in Station Road have been making the area even more congested.

And with Davenies School just yards away, as well as Three Gables nursing home, police fear an accident is inevitable.

Sergeant Gerry Lister, of Beaconsfield Police, said: "The biggest weight on my mind is the disastrous situation in Station Road.

"There are lorries parking on the road and there is a school and an old people's home there.

"Lorries are parking on the pavement and in the road. It is a blooming disaster.

"Fortunately everything is moving so slowly on the road I do not think there is any safety issue with regard to traffic but there is with pedestrians on the pavement.

"It could be an accident waiting to happen."

Alison Derrick, Buckinghamshire County Council's highway's manager for south Buckinghamshire district, said there was little they could do.

She said: "There are not any double yellow lines on that stretch of road. If there are no waiting restrictions there is nothing for the police to enforce and therefore we cannot and they cannot stop people from parking unless it is causing an obstruction that cannot be got round."

"We are talking to them on a daily basis about what can be done to cause less of an obstruction. There is nothing in the planning conditions that says they have to keep all their lorries on the site."

County highways officers have suggested bringing lorries on to the site one at a time.