THE parents of a 21-year-old who died in a motorbike crash four years ago laid flowers at the accident site just hours before a three-vehicle smash in exactly the same place.

Matthew Mason died at the roadside on December 5, 2002 after his motorbike collided head-on with a Rover car travelling in the opposite direction along West Ashton Road in Trowbridge.

Donna and Mike Oaten laid flowers at the site to mark the fourth anniversary of his death just three hours before another three-vehicle smash there on December 5.

Mr Oaten, Matthew's stepfather, said he could not understand why a speed camera had not been installed at the site.

He said: "Every time we go down there to Matthew's memorial I hear wing mirrors being clipped.

"Several times I've had to say to Donna stand back' because there's a car coming on the other side of the road because people take the bend too fast. I hear these reports of speed cameras going up and I cannot understand why they haven't done anything down there."

The most recent crash happened at 5.30pm on December 5 when a white van, a blue Vauxhall Zafira and a silver Mini Cooper collided.

The Mini ended up in the ditch next to Matthew's memorial, just a few feet away from destroying it.

Mr Oaten said: "The car ended up within feet of the memorial where we had laid flowers at 1.20pm earlier that day. I just hope that something like that doesn't happen when we're down there.

"But there will be other accidents down there - we know that just by seeing the speed at which cars travel down there."

Mr and Mrs Oaten visit the memorial about three or four times a year to lay flowers.

Mr Mason had waved goodbye to his mother just moments before his crash, which happened when he and two friends were riding their bikes towards West Ashton.

Sergeant Nick Blencowe, of the Wiltshire and Swindon Safety Camera Partnership, said: "There is a survey being carried out on West Ashton Road and we will consider the findings of it.

"The analyst who works here is always receiving statistics from around the county so if there is a piece of road where something changes then he would automatically put that up as a potential site for a camera."