The human toll of crashes on a notorious stretch of the A417 in Gloucestershire has been revealed in shocking official figures.They show eight people lost their lives in five separate crashes in the past five years on the part of the road from the Cowley roundabout to the A46 junction at Shurdington.This part of the road runs steeply down to Nettleton Bottom, past the notorious Birdlip turnoff, on to the crash-prone Air Balloon roundabout and down the steep Crickley Hill to the A46 Shurdington...
