A petition to dual a north-east road has been signed by more than 1,000 people since it created.
Helen Graham, who wants to see the A90 road dualled north of Ellon to Fraserburgh, said she started the campaign to “save lives” on the route which she dubbed “not fit for purpose in 2015”.
She is the latest campaigner to call for the road to be dualled following pleas from Fraserburgh councillor Ian Tait’s appeal to members of the public to make their voices heard to road chiefs.
Earlier this month Conservative MEP Ian Duncan laid out the business case for dualling a 14-mile stretch of the route between Ellon and Peterhead.
Thousands of cars, vans and HGVs travel the single carriageway road every day and campaigners fear that unless action is taken the region’s economy could be left crippled.
As part of the “Why Stop at Ellon?” drive, Mr Duncan has urged the Scottish Government to take advantage of a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan to fund what would be a huge infrastructure project.
But Mr Tait wants locals to ask “Why Stop At Peterhead?”
It is estimated that the cost of upgrading each mile of the route would be about £10million.
Ms Graham said: “The road sees a huge amount of traffic of all shapes and sizes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
“It is seriously overcrowded, some of the vehicles speeds are too low and this results in accidents being caused by overtaking and bad driving.
“The petition has been started purely to save lives on a section of road which is not fit for purpose in 2015.”
Dualling the A90 north of Ellon is one of the possibilities currently being looked at by Nestrans in their ongoing Fraserburgh and Peterhead to Aberdeen Strategic Transport Study.
Ms Graham added: “It is lives I want to save.
“The lives of everyone, many who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Consultation on the transport study ends in December, and other options being looked at by regional transport body include the reintroduction of a railway line between the city, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.