Every household in a Pembrokeshire village is being surveyed in a bid to help improve road safety.
The pavement in Llanddewi Velfrey is so narrow that a dog being walked along it was killed by a passing truck when it glanced over its shoulder.
Another woman walking along the narrow strip alongside the A40 has twice had her handbag ripped off her shoulder by the slipstream of passing lorries.
Now the community council, with the backing of local AM Angela Burns, has launched a petition and a survey aimed at assessing how urgently improvements are needed.
The petition, which will be delivered by Mrs. Burns to the Assembly, is calling for the speed limit through the village to be dropped to 30mph, for the pavement and crossing places to be made safer and for speed cameras to be installed.
Eighty-one-year-old Eirlys Owen is one of the local residents who will be signing the petition.
She doesn't drive and so has to walk across the A40 to get to the only village shop and post office to collect her pension and groceries.
"I take my life in my hands every time I go up there," she said. "If I see a lorry coming, I press myself into the hedge because of the slipstream."
Mrs. Burns has helped to print and distribute the surveys and is hoping for a strong response rate.
"Llanddewi Velfrey must have the most dangerous pavement in Pembrokeshire; in places it is only 20 inches wide," she said.
"We need to present a strong, united and loud voice to the Welsh Assembly Government to try to make this road safer before it is too late."
• The petition calling for road safety improvements through Llanddewi Velfrey can be signed in the village petrol station or on the village hall noticeboard.