Villagers want lorry ban after HGVs mount kerbs

The village is popular with lorries as it sits close to a slip road onto the A52 which then connects with the M1 a few miles further down.

Barry Hudston said: "It's incredible the danger of the large lorries trying to get down such a narrow road.

"It's not meant for heavy goods vehicles and then when you get perhaps two vehicles trying to pass, some of their cars have to reverse up to let them get through."

His wife Linda Hudston said the situation was "terrifying" and revealed she had previously been knocked off her bike by a lorry.

"We need a restriction for heavy goods vehicles [in Ockbrook]," she said.

"It will have a great impact on our lives and our families' lives that have to put up with our road being a rat-run.

"It's the pollution, the noise and the threat that you're going to die because they come very close."