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Rush-hour chaos after nine-car crash
Reporter: Beatriz Ayala
Date online: 19/01/2010
TRAFFIC chaos brought rush-hour motorists to a standstill following a nine-car collision in Huddersfield Road yesterday — the second multi-vehicle pile up in four days.
The incident happened at 4.45pm near the Tesco Extra supermarket heading away from Oldham town centre.
However, town centre drivers were still struggling to move over an hour and a half later.
Five vehicles involved in the collision, a Renault Megane, Mini Cooper, Ford Galaxy, Peugeot 206 and Peugeot 607, were recovered as they were too damaged to drive.
It is believed one person was treated in their car for injuries.
Police diverted drivers away from the scene but there were no road closures.
The collision saw tailbacks stretching back along Huddersfield Road, past Mumps roundabout and back into the town centre.
One driver, who did not want to be identified, said: “Mumps roundabout was gridlocked while Huddersfield Road was at a complete standstill.
“It was a real nightmare and I could see other motorists getting really irate.
“We didn’t know what was going on.”
Police inquiries are ongoing.
This latest incident follows the 25-vehicle pile up that hit rush-hour drivers last Friday.
On that occasion, black ice caused a chain of collisions on the frozen A627 at Chadderton just before 8am.
Seven people were hurt, including a 46-year-old man who suffered a broken leg and a 39-year-old woman who sustained head and chest injuries.
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Meanwhile on Lees Road workmen are busy digging up more of the road and causing more disruption with a badly lit chicane. Does anyone know what they are actually trying to do?
well knowing this road it wasnt speed that caused it as traffics hurrendous at this time of an evening.
oh hang on! theres a similarity here with lees rd. what do the both have in common? idiotic bus lanes that are hardly used and confuse drivers!
time to get rid of them ombc!!
the hudderfield road bus lanes are the worst in the area. why somebody thought reducing the capacity of a main throughfares towards yorkshire from two lanes to one lane was as good idea i'll never know. especially as not that many bus services actually use the lanes.
also i do rememeber the original plans in the chron and im sure that it actually should have been three lanes all the way along? can the chron help confirm this?
why ombc think this road needs only one lane in the rush hours which lead to two of the major routes out of oldham while the bus lanes get hardly used is a mystery to me?
until oldham has decent roads, public transort thats frequent nad decent facilities, no business is ever going to think oldhams a good place to locate!
Do any of these drivers realise that there are braking distances that are supposed to be adhered to?
what a shock to see that in the chron last monday
that road can be very busy people should take great care when it comes to road safety
let us hope it does not happen again our roads should always be a safe place for us to drive on
Looks as though there wasn't a 4 x 4 involved - that will upset the statistics...........
BTW hope everyone was OK.
By Jaywood @ 19/01/2010 16:37:31
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