Landlady’s action call over danger junction

Photo: Picture: LINDA BENNETT

COLLISION in Huddersfield Road.

A Saddleworth pub landlady has demanded action after a spectacular three-vehicle smash left a 17-year-old woman trapped in a car on Friday (27) afternoon.

The accident, which happened at 2.47pm outside the Farrars Arms pub, Oldham Road, Grasscroft, involved six people.

Fire crews from Oldham and Mossley spent 50 minutes at the scene cutting through the wreckage to release the woman driver.

A Nissan Micra, Ford Transit van and Mercedes Sprinter were involved in the collision.

Landlady Karen Broadbent, who runs The Farrars Arms, Grasscroft, with Melanie Lord, urged the council to examine the road junction.

She said: “It has a really bad history for crashes. It is very awkward, particularly for drivers who do not live locally.

“Our customers say with some irony, they sit outside in the summer just to see how many accidents or near-misses take place at the junction. Something needs to be done before someone loses their life.”

Melanie Lord, who took cups of tea to the people involved in the accident, said: “I just broke down and cried at one point.

“It was such a terrible mess with firemen police and ambulance crews everywhere. The junction really should be examined as a matter of urgency.”

The woman trapped in the vehicle was taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital with a suspected broken leg but her injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

The car’s passenger, another 17-year-old woman, was out on arrival but taken to hospital as well.

Officers administered trauma care to the other people involved but no one was seriously injured.

Traffic was reduced to one lane while the rescue was in operation and cars recovered and police say their inquiries are on-going.


Double drama on M60

FIRE crews from Hollins and Ashton were called to the M60 twice to tackle separate incidents at the same location on Saturday.

They were first called out at 10.15am to tackle a car fire between junction 22 Hollinwood and junction 23 Ashton.

The engine of a Vauxhall Vectra caught fire while being driven along the clockwise carriageway but the driver managed to stop on the hard shoulder.

Police closed the inside lane while fire crews spent 30 minutes tackling the fire, but no one was injured.

Officers were called out again at 6.20pm when a Fiat Punto strayed off the motorway, up the embankment and overturned.

The male driver was pulled free by fire-fighters and given oxygen therapy at the scene before being taken to hospital.

No one else was injured.


Woman hurt as car flips over

A CAR flipped over on to its roof following an accident involving two cars at 8.40am on Saturday.

Police and fire crews were called to the junction of Huddersfield Road and Stamford Road, Greenacres, and found a Toyota Avensis (above) on its roof after it was in collision with a Citroen C3. One woman suffered from a head wound and concussion.

She was treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital.