A GRIEVING son has slated highway chiefs after a workmate was fatally injured on the road where his father died.

The latest death is the sixth on the Pontypool-Abergavenny road in three years.

In March, bank worker John Kostanjevic, pictured, demanded that the National Assembly curb speeding on the A4042 following the death of his elderly father.

Ivan Kostanjevec died when he collided with a motorcycle while crossing the notorious road at Goytre in September last year.

Yesterday his son criticised the Assembly's lack of action after colleague Frank Mason Nash died following a two-car crash.

Mr Nash was head of the underwriting department at Lloyds-TSB in Tredegar Park, Newport.

The 55-year-old, from Llanddewi Rhydderch, Abergavenny, died last week from the serious head injuries and internal bleeding he sustained when his Mazda car was in collision with a Fiat Tipo on the A4042 at Mamhilad on August 7.

Mr Kostanjevec, of Croesypant, near Goytre, told the Argus the Assembly must now sit up and take notice.

He said: "It is coming up to a year since my father's death and it appears the Assembly has done nothing. It was this lack of action that prompted my reaction in the first place.

"Mr Nash was a colleague of mine at Lloyds-TSB, a lovely man. How many more fatalities do there have to be?"

At the time of Ivan Kostanjevec's death a National Assembly spokesman dismissed calls to bring the limit down from 60mph to 40mph on the A4042 as "unjustified".

But Mr Nash's death has also prompted local county councillor Andre Arkell to renew his calls that the National Assembly bypass the road between Mamhilad and the busy Hardwick roundabout, Abergavenny.

An Assembly spokeswoman said last night there were no plans for a bypass between Mamhilad and Hardwick roundabout, but as part of its trunk road review they were looking at the possibility of a bypass of the road from Llanellen to Penperlleni, near Abergavenny.

The funeral of Mr Nash, who is survived by his wife, Laureen, will take place at St David's Church, Llanddewi Rhydderch, at 11am on Saturday.

Marie Cheedy, of Pontypool, the driver of the Fiat, suffered hip and knee injuries in the crash. She remains in the Royal Gwent Hospital, where her condition is stable. Her husband, David, was less seriously injured.