A mother who lost both her sons in road accidents has switched on a new speed camera.

Georgina Dey, 61, has been campaigning for safer roads since the tragic deaths of her sons Tim and Barry.

She turned on the new camera on the A24 southbound near Grinders Lanes, Dial Post, near the Old Barn Nurseries, on behalf of the Sussex Safety Camera Partnership yesterday.

There have been eight accidents resulting in injury over the past three years on a 750 metre stretch of road, three of which caused serious injury or death.

About 30 per cent of the vehicles involved in the accidents were travelling at more than the 60mph speed limit.

Mrs Dey said: "People forget a car is a lethal weapon so we want to remind them of that.

"We are going through a life of hell and we don't want anybody else to suffer in the same way."

Barry Dey, 29, was killed instantly in 2000 after a car travelling at 80mph on the opposite side of the A24 Ashington bypass from Horsham to Worthing ploughed across the central reservation into his van.

His brother Tim died in a crash near Alton in Hampshire on April 25, 1999, his 32nd birthday, when he was struck by a motorcyclist travelling on the wrong side of the road.

Two other new cameras are going live this week - on the A264 at Slinfold and the A27 at Cote Street, Worthing.