A MOTHER-OF-TWO has died following a horrific accident on the road branded the "most dangerous" in South Gloucestershire.

Kate Macnab was killed when a car collided with her motorbike on the A46 near Old Sodbury on Sunday night.

The 43-year-old, from Highfields in Dursley, was on her way home from a Shiatsu training course in Bristol just after 5.30pm.

It is believed a car travelling southbound towards the M4 motorway was overtaking another vehicle when the accident happened just after 5.30pm at Old Sodbury on the A46, just south of the Cross Hands junction.

The incident follows a string of accidents on the A46 in the past year including another fatal motorbike crash on the same bend.

In May, a 20-year-old woman died as she stepped off a coach after a day out at the Badminton Horse Trials when she was hit by a passing car.

Two years ago, another motorcyclist was seriously injured on the same bend where Mrs Macnab died.

Cllr Sue Hope (Lib Dem, Cotswold Edge) is calling on South Gloucestershire Council to release figures on injury accidents on the A46.

"Obviously there is a problem and we need to get something done about it," she said.

Cllr Hope said improvements had been made to the road north of the Cross Hands junction following a public campaign in 2004.

'Action A46' was launched four years ago amid growing concern that the number of fatal accidents was increasing.

The council reduced the speed limit from 50mph to 40mph on some stretches of the busy road and improvements were made to signs and road markings.

At the time, campaigner and Petty France resident Gerry Sanderson told the Gazette: "It has long been a fast and busy road but there is now an increasing population and speed kills. People speed on through as if no one else exists."

A South Gloucestershire Council spokesman said this week: "This was a tragic incident and our sympathies are with the families and friends of those involved.

"There has been another fatal accident in that area so we will be looking at the circumstances of both to see if there is any link, although at this stage we believe the circumstances were very different."

Mrs Macnab’s husband John Humphry, 46, said his wife, an agency nurse, had been so happy since moving to Gloucestershire from Southmead in Bristol earlier this year.

He added: "Kate was very spiritual, I liked to think she was a cross between a hippy and a biker chick.

"Her ethos was not to live to work but to enjoy life outside of work as much as possible."

Her two teenage sons, Sam, 16, and Josh, 18, are devastated.

"She was a wonderful mother," added Mr Humphry. "She lived for her two boys and spent all the time she could with them."

Avon and Somerset police are appealing for witnesses to the latest accident to come forward. Anyone with information is asked to call 0845 4567000.