HOTEL spa member Allan McNicol is hoping to win backing for his planned petition seeking to reduce the speed limit on a road where a motorcyclist died last week.

Father-of-two Ian Glanister, 29, from St Helens, died at the scene after his motorbike was in collision with a car next to the Cottons Hotel on Manchester Road at 6.24pm on Thursday, March 28.

The fatal crash was the third on that stretch of road in the past four years.

A motorcyclist died in 2015 after being involved in a collision with a car outside Fryer’s Garden Centre, and in 2016 Miroslaw Chlap, a chef at Cottons, died after being hit by a car outside the hotel as he cycled home after work.

Alan, 68, is a longtime member of the spa at Cottons Hotel, and the latest death on that stretch of road has prompted him to start a petition calling for a cut in the 60 speed limit.

Alan, from Moulton Close, Knutsford, is looking to launch an e-petition on the Cheshire East Council website.

Mr McNicol has submitted the petition to Cheshire East Council, and is waiting to hear if it has been accepted. If it is accepted by the council it would run for a month.

The Guardian will publicise the link to the petition when it goes live.

There have been nine e-petitions on the council website in the past year, three attracting no names, the top being signed by 629 people, and the other five attracting between 14 and 137 names.

The petition which attracted 14 names related to speed enforcement on Manchester Road, Wilmslow.

If accepted Mr McNicol's petition should go live within 10 days of it being submitted to Cheshire East.

Mr McNicol is hoping to win as many signatures as possible to persuade the council to review the current speed limit, and has contacted Tatton MP Esther McVey’s office to seek her support.

“I find it difficult when I come out of the hotel entrance to turn right into Knutsford because the traffic is hurtling along in both directions,” he said.

“In addition there is limited visibility to the right because of the bend. It was heart-breaking to read in the Guardian about the motorcyclist who died last week.”