Prince Philip crash road has 60mph speed limit SLASHED and safety cameras installed after five deaths in six years

THE stretch of road where Prince Philip was involved in a car crash has today dramatically had its speed limit slashed to 50mph after being the scene of five deaths in just six years.

The 97-year-old royal yelled “My legs!” as he was pulled from the wreckage of his overturned Land Rover near Sandringham, Norfolk, yesterday.

He was trapped after the vehicle he was driving collided with a Kia carrying two women and a baby.

And members from Norfolk County Council had previously planned to hold a meeting about safety on the road after it 40 personal injury accidents happened on the road between 2012 and 2018.

Councillors decided to cut the limit from 60mph to 50mph and install safety cameras on the road.

A report by Tom McCabe, the council’s executive director of Community and Environmental Services, previously suggested limit should be reduced by 10mph.

He also recommended that safety cameras should be installed on the A149, described as “one of the busiest roads in Norfolk”.

Recent figures show there have been five fatal and 10 serious accidents on the road in the same six-year period.

There is no suggestion that either motorist was speeding in the lead up to yesterday’s crash.

In October, highways engineer Andrew Wadsworth told the Eastern Daily Press the road has a “high rate of personal injury collisions”.

Witness Roy Warne, 75, said the smash was “frightening to see."

Mr Warne also told how Prince Philip said he was “dazzled by the sun” at a T-junction before his Land Rover hit another car carrying a mother and baby.

He said the Duke of Edinburgh was pulled from the wreckage “conscious” but “very, very shocked and shaken”.

Roy said: “I saw the car flip and thought f*****g hell. Before I even stopped I said to Victoria, dial 999.”

Roy helped Philip out of his overturned Land Rover.

He said: “I looked down and had the Prince’s blood on my hands.

“All I could think is, thank goodness there wasn’t more.”