A FIFE councillor has vowed to step up his road safety campaign after Friday’s accident which resulted in the death of local man Alexander Christie.

Burntisland councillor Willie Leggatt described the crash which killed the 55-year-old postman as a tragedy, but added that it could have been prevented.

Mr Christie, of Fleming Way, Burntisland, was married with grown-up children. He had just left the Pettycur Bay caravan park and was travelling into Burntisland when he was involved in an accident with several cars, including a people carrier carrying Swedish tourists.

The tourists were kept in overnight in Queen Marga-ret Hospital, Dunfermline. One was described as having serious injuries.

Mr Leggatt described Kinghorn Road as very dangerous. “I’m angry because I’ve been trying to get that road dealt with for years.”

He said one problem was cars speeding along the long, straight 30 mph road through the town after leaving the 60 mph section between Kinghorn and Burnt- island. “I will be speaking to the police again, but it is disappointing that it takes a death to hammer home the message,” he said.

Mr Leggatt’s campaign is backed by local man Ron Blanchard who lives yards from the scene of the accident. He has been calling for traffic calming since the 1970s but said the situation had worsened recently.

“Cables were laid across the road outside the Sands Hotel in February, but at a time when there were temporary traffic lights there so the results showed only 2% of vehicles were speeding and the highest speed was 48 mph,” he said. “That indicates there is not a great problem with speeding on this road, but it’s terrible.”

Both men were particularly concerned about a bus stop where the path is too narrow for pupils leaving the school bus. “The children have to alight on to six slabs and spill onto the road,” said Mr Blanchard.

“There are times when the bus has driven off and the children are standing in a great big heap on the road. There will be another tragedy before long unless something is done.

“There are flashing warning lights as well as white lines but people completely disregard them.”