UP to £200,000 is set to be earmarked to sort out a danger junction in Canvey town centre - before there is a serious crash.

Essex County Council has agreed to contribute the first £100,000 to major highway improvements - with Castle Point Council match funding.

Now the council’s cabinet will meet on Wednesday to discuss the “unsafe” junction between Foksville Road and Furtherwick Road.

Council leader, Norman Smith, insists the junction is a liability, with large vehicles, including buses, unable to take the corner without travelling onto the opposite lane, causing potential smashes with oncoming traffic.

As a result, larger vehicles are forced to wait to take the corner, and some drivers attempt it anyway which has seen countless bollards damaged on the corner, and numerous near misses.

Roger Murray, 54, of Dovervelt Road, said: “It definitely needs some work.

“When you are in the town centre, it is not unusual to see buses or supermarket delivery trucks struggling, they literally cannot go around that corner without using the other lane.

“Obviously that is dangerous and should be fixed.

“We are talking about our town centre, which is full of pedestrians, near a school, right next to the library, but the roads aren’t safe enough for a simple left turn.”

Essex County Council has insisted the money is only spent on the implementation of schemes, rather than design and feasibility stages.

And with plans already drawn up for the junction to be developed, this was the obvious choice for the council.

Any money left-over will be used on additional projects.

Mr Smith said: “At the moment, when large vehicles, your buses etc, access Furtherwick Road, from Foksville Road, the road itself and the bend are so narrow they cannot do it.

“They have to go into the opposing lane to take the corner, and it is clear what difficulties that presents. What we are proposing to do, is completely change the radius of the bend, and give it a much larger sweeping radius.

“It means any buses, or other large vehicles, are having to wait at the junction until the opposing lane is clear so they can take the corner.

“Or what we are finding is they take the bend and end up knocking down the bollards, which we have replaced countless times. It is dangerous, and it is an unattractive junction as well which could be easily improved.”

The council’s cabinet will meet on Wednesday.