Traffic will be banned from the death crash scene for 18 months
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A Mansfield father whose daughter was killed in a bus crash wants plans to pedestrianise the stretch of road where she died to be permanent.
Five people were killed in the crash on Sea Lane at Ingoldmells, last Easter.
Lincolnshire County Council agreed on Monday to pedestrianise the road for 18 months and then review the project.
Neal Cooper, who lost daughter Paula and son-in-law Richard Rhodes, said it was a good start, but vehicles should be permanently banned forever.
Dangerous driving
He said: "There will be no more traffic accidents outside Fantasy Island which means there will be no more deaths.
"We don't know how many deaths will be avoided but we do know that if it was allowed to carry on people would die and they are not going to now."
The scheme will go before a planning committee for final approval next month.
Joanna Warren, 37, from Braunstone, Leicester, and her two young sons, Jacob, five, and four-month-old Leyton also died in the crash.
On Tuesday the bus driver Stephen Topasna, 51, of Bridge Street, Louth, appeared in court accused of five charges of causing death by dangerous driving and a further offence of driving without due care and attention.
Magistrates adjourned the case for a preliminary hearing at Lincoln Crown Court on 22 February and granted him conditional bail.
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