A councillor has called for tractors to be banned from a village or reduce their speed after a crash at the weekend.

Eastern Daily Press: Sunday's crash in WilburtonSunday's crash in Wilburton (Image: Archant)

Councillor Bill Hunt was speaking after he had visited the scene of the latest incident involving a tractor which ploughed into two cottages on Sunday morning.

He said: 'There was this huge trailer which had skidded down the road and ended up some 40 yards from the house.'

The occupants were away when the crash happened but Cllr Hunt is concerned that 'a hell of a disaster is just waiting to happen'.

Camilla Herring, who took some photos on Sunday and provided photos of earlier crashes, said: 'It's only a matter of time before someone is killed.'

Eastern Daily Press: 2011 crash in Wilburton2011 crash in Wilburton (Image: Archant)

She said apart from Sunday's crash and the previous incident when a tractor ploughed into the same house, other collisions had occurred.

'A tractor and trailer were involved in a head-on collision with a car in front of these cottages a few days before Christmas two years ago,' she said.

'The trailer which crashed on Sunday was loaded with processed maize for the anaerobic digester plant in Stretham.

'The tipping trailer rammed into the side of the building, tearing off the doors and crushing the windows, finally emptied its load of maize into the ground floor of the cottage through the windows and doors – you can see it in the heaps outside.

'Another crash on the same stretch of High Street saw a tractor narrowly the Post Office and caused the road to be closed in July 2012.'

She added: 'Many parents walk their children to school along this footpath in the morning (the school has 117 kids) and these AD trailers (and other traffic) hurtle through the village.'

Cllr Hunt said villagers were at the end of their tether and it was time a way was found to control tractors through Wilburton.

He felt the issue of heavy goods vehicles had been tackled successfully by route planning and the same was needed to stop unnecessary tractor movements.

He said many tractors were carting maize and there was the temptation to use Wilburton as a short cut.

'We all remember those old grey Fergusons but these new mammoth tractors and their loads are a different thing altogether,' he said.

Cllr Hunt will be asking the county council to explore regulations to stop tractors using the village.

'There has to be some way to do this,' he said.

Sunday's incident was the second time in four years a tractor and trailer hit the same cottage in High Street.

Traceyanne Devine, who supplied these photos, said: 'It is time the tractors stopped coming through Wilburton.'

In January, 2011, a tractor carrying a cargo of carrots crashed into one of the houses hit today.