Angry villagers in Wheatley claim a recently installed traffic calming scheme is to blame for a car overturning.

The car rolled over outside Mill View Plant Centre, on Ladder Hill, after it hit a bollard at 2.20pm on Tuesday. The woman driver was slightly injured.

Speed humps and give way points designed to slow traffic and cut the number of cars using a shortcut through the village, were installed in Ladder Hill in May and June.

Oxfordshire County Council completed the work in July at a cost of about £100,000.

Colin Dallimore, who owns the plant centre, said: "I see near misses out there every day. A few weeks ago a motorcyclist came off his bike, but fortunately he was okay."

He blamed the new road layout for the problems.

He said: "The whole thing is ill-conceived. "The accident has confirmed our worst nightmares. I just pray no-one gets killed.

"In the winter months it will be even worse. We are the only business on Ladder Hill, so we use the road constantly.

"We want to slow traffic down, we want to keep traffic out of the village -- but not at the expense of lives.

"The people responsible should hold their hands up and it should all be taken out."

Cyril Sellar, the chairman of Cuddesdon and Denton Parish Council, said: "We always opposed the traffic calming. We have no facilities in our village and have to come into Wheatley to get to the bank, post office and shops. We forecast there would be an accident and today the traffic calming has claimed its first victim."

David Deriaz, a county council traffic engineer, said: "The scheme was completed last July and this has been the first accident that we have heard of. We can never be absolutely sure that accidents like this don't happen."