Four cars parked outside a Black Country home have been written off in crashes in just one year. Exasperated owner Emma Hume and her neighbours put the accident toll down to the speed at which vehicles travel down their Tipton road.

They say it is time speed humps were put in. Emma and her husband Giles have paid out more than £4,000 after two cars and two vans were damaged since January. Mrs Hume says the problem is driving her mad.

Her neighbours have also had their walls and front gardens destroyed by drivers who, they say, tear down Victoria Road, misjudge the bend and crash in Queens Road, where they live.

The latest incident happened on Saturday when a car careered into a van owned by Mr Hume, who runs a car body repairs business.

Now mother-of-one Mrs Hume, aged 25, is so fed-up of speeding motorists that she is demanding Sandwell Council put speed bumps along Queens Road.

She said that the fear of finding another vehicle smashed up in the morning was keeping her awake at night.

“This cannot go on,” she said.

“My husband and I cannot keep forking out money to buy replacement vehicles because the drivers that cause the accidents are running off and no insurance claim can be made.”

“It is driving me mad. I fail to sleep properly each night in case I wake up to a screech and a loud bang and see yet another vehicle smashed or worse still my house,” Mrs Hume added.

“The two roads that join on a nasty bend both have schools at each end, with a speed limit of 30mph, yet one in three motorists are doing far much more than that.”

Neighbour and mum-of-two Amanda Dudgon, 40, is backing Mrs Hume, after her front wall was demolished by a driver last August. “I was absolutely devastated,” she said.

“There was such a mess. There was just rubble and bits of car spread across the garden.

“When I realised the children had been out playing by the drive just a minute before it happened, I was just so glad it was just the wall that was damaged.”

Mum-of-three Ann Bradley, a recruitment consultant who lives in Queens Road, said: “We’ve lived here for six years, and it’s dreadful.

“Drivers just don’t realise how sharp this corner is.”

Councillor Mahboob Hussain, Sandwell Council’s cabinet member for neighbourhoods and housing, said the incidents were concerning and the matter would be looked at again.

“There have been some speed reduction measures in Queens Road in the past,” he said.

“We understand the concerns, and I have asked officers to re-investigate and assess the speeds in this road.

“Speeding enforcement is essentially a matter for the police, and in the meantime we will bring Queens Road to their attention again.

“We have recently formed a new casualty reduction partnership in Sandwell with the police, ambulance and fire services, with the aim co-operating on initiatives,” Councillor Hussain added.