A Gravesend road where a woman died and two other accidents have occurred in less than a month is like a "drag race", according to one mum.

On Sunday two pedestrians suffered minor injuries when they were hit by a car in Milton Road, near the junction with Albion Road, reportedly while it was racing another vehicle in the direction of the town centre.

Police are searching for the driver, who made off from the silver Renault Laguna on foot following the incident at around 2.40pm.

Amelia Rayfield, 32, has lived in Park Place, off Milton Road, for 14 years and says she is wary of letting her sons Axel, 11, and Connor, seven, walk to the nearby Milton Road newsagents.

The care worker and mother-of-four said: "It’s ridiculous, people use that road like a drag race.

"I won’t even let my sons move across that zebra crossing by the shop unless both sides have completely stopped.

"Some poor lady lost her life and that was 20 to 30 minutes before I left for work.

"They need some speed bumps down that bit and in my honest opinion the speed limit should be at least 20mph rather than 30 because people hardly ever do 30."

Stefan Turner, 22, was working in the front garden of a house in Brunswick Walk when the latest crash happened.

The plumbing and heating engineer, of Dogwood Close, Northfleet, agrees the speed limit should be lowered to 20mph.

The father-of-three said: "I didn’t see it but I was told he mounted the left hand pavement and then went across the road and mounted the other.

"One young lad aged between 15 and 20 was standing but with a bad leg, and a lady in her 30s was really distraught and had blood all down her, kneeling on the floor.

"Apparently the driver and the passenger jumped out after the crash and ran up the road and the other car they were racing picked them up at the shop near the zebra crossing.

"Something needs to be done along there, definitely. That railway bridge is really blind as well and it’s such a dangerous junction."

The crash happened just yards from where 34-year-old Stela-Maria Hurmuzache-Anpohe was hit by a Mercedes and killed at the traffic lights further towards Gravesend town centre on November 15.

A man in his 20s was hit by a bus on the same stretch of road on Thursday.

Regarding Sunday’s incident, a Kent Police said: "Officers would encourage the driver or anyone with information to contact police by calling 101 and quoting reference 1130-0827."