A mother whose daughter was killed on a seafront road is furious a driver who hit a girl at the same spot has only been fined.

Betty Gregory said the case of Timothy Jones, who left student Harriet Jordan Wrench fighting for her life after an accident in Madeira Drive, Brighton, highlighted how nothing had been done to make the road safer since her own daughter Lynsey Richmond died there five years ago.

Mrs Gregory has been calling for tougher measures to curb speeding on the road since her tragedy in April 1997 and blames Brighton and Hove City Council for failing to act.

She has vowed to take her protest further after Jones's sentence yesterday, by mounting a regular sit-down protest in the middle of the road with a group of other campaigners to block traffic.

Her anger was shared by Harriet's mother, Pauline Jordan, who said financial penalties imposed on drivers for speeding or careless driving would do nothing to prevent future accidents on the road.

Both women said urgent steps should be taken to force drivers to drive slower and more carefully, including the installation of traffic humps, gates and speed cameras.

Jones, 19, a computer student of Cuckfield Road, Hurstpierpoint, was fined £250 and ordered to pay £250 costs.

Six penalty points were added to his previously-clean driving licence, which he had held for only ten months and which was suspended until he has retaken a driving test.

A council spokeswoman said the council had decided to convene a group to examine again the issue of speeding on Madeira Drive.

She said the group was in the process of looking for solutions already.