A widow is today celebrating victory in her fight to get crash barriers installed on the road where her husband was killed.

Caroline Dey, 29, of Streetfield Road, Slinfold, near Horsham, launched her campaign after the crash on the A24 at Ashington, near Worthing.

Her husband Barry, 29, died when a Peugeot 405 crossed the central reservation and crashed into his Vauxhall Astra estate car on May 26 last year.

Mrs Dey, who has a six-year-old son, Oliver, collected 8,000 names backing her campaign for crash barriers on the road.

Now West Sussex County Council has agreed to install them after getting a £150,000 Government grant.

Mrs Dey said: "I certainly didn't think it was going to happen so quickly. At the outset I was told it was a waste of time doing the petition.

"I hope the barriers will stop other people having the same fate as my husband."

Mrs Dey said Oliver helped her collect names, supported by Howard Flight, MP for Arundel and South Downs.

The barrier will be designed and installed over a one-mile stretch between Hole Street in Ashington and the Rock crossroads in Washington.

A county council spokesman said: "We were planning to do something along here anyway, but we are certainly aware of Mrs Dey's petition and the strong public support for it and we have taken that on board."