Hairdresser is hurt as lorry hits parked car
A WOMAN hairdresser suffered head injuries when a lorry ploughed into the back of her parked car as she waited for a client to come home.
The victim, in her 30s, was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre following the crash in Moorgreen, Newthorpe, at 4.50pm on Friday.
The Vauxhall Astra was smashed through a wall and into a car port in the next-door neighbour's garden.
The woman, named locally as Karen, is understood to have had a brain scan.
Jackie Horwood, who was due to have her hair cut, said she was shocked when she came home and saw the wreckage.
"She has been coming here for 10 years and never had problems before," she said.
"Her mum phoned and said she had gone for a brain scan. She has a big cut on the back of her head."
Tim and Pam Pearson came home to find the car in their garden.
"My children were in. They heard the noise. There was a big bang that shook the house and there was a woman in the car," said Mr Pearson.
"We really feel for the lady."
He added that residents had been campaigning for years for better safety measures because of the number of accidents on the road.
He said the incident had forced the road to be closed for the second time that day, after an earlier crash near the Reuben Shaw and Sons garden centre in Moorgreen.
"I have written to the council, the Highways Agency, the local MP to get the speed limit reduced to 30mph," said Mr Pearson.
"There are six or seven holes in the hedges where people have gone through. But for some reason the council will not do anything.
"It needs to be 30mph and we need speed cameras."
The lorry driver was unhurt.
Watch manager Gary Barnett, of Highfields fire station, said: "The force of the impact pushed the car through a wall into a front garden."
Inspector Michael Hilton, of Notts Police, said officers examined the vehicle. "The woman has got head injuries," he said.
9 Comments
by innram, ng16
Monday, December 07 2009, 10:05PM
“Well done to the police officer who parked on the b600 tonight,the police car was facing the correct way and had its side lights on unlike the white van parked opposite which wasn't..”
by Cheryl, eastwood
Friday, December 04 2009, 11:05PM
“This accident is one of many on this stretch of road it is tragedy waiting to happen.
The speed limit on the a 610 between the M1 and Ikea island is 50 60 there are no houses or pedestrians so why is it also forty when their are pedestrians walking on narrow paths and houses close to road , and cars coming out there drives and car parks in the area .
Also a lorry driver should have a better view of the road a head so there is no excuse.
It is clear there is only one solution a lower speed limit”
by tim, nottm
Friday, December 04 2009, 5:42PM
“raminn
sorry, i thought i was talking to an adult.”
by raminn, ng16
Friday, December 04 2009, 2:39PM
“Yes Tim we should make the whole of the B600 a 30mph limit from Nuthall roundabout to Alfreton,in fact we should make it a cycle way.”
by tim, nottm
Thursday, December 03 2009, 5:01PM
“RAMINN.
the road has a 30mph limit at both ends ,eastwood and underwood. why is the stretch in between different. it is a narrow b road the m1 is there to take the traffic..”
by raminn, ng16
Tuesday, December 01 2009, 5:26PM
“Klaus. Sunset on fri was 16.00 .The point I was making was that I wouldn't park on a road like that without either side lights or hazards on, not only for other drivers safety but mine, even then as was demonstrated last fri you still get those who say "sorry mate I didn't see you"
Mr Pearson no I wouldn't like double yellow line outside my house but then I don't live on a major commutor road.”
by klaus, NG16
Tuesday, December 01 2009, 12:33PM
“The requirement, Ram Inn, is not for double yellow lines down Moorgren but simply for a reduction in the speed limit or even for the current limit to be enforced. Too many drivers accelerate down the road as soon as they are past Reubens paying no attention to the current speed limit.
The accident occurred at around 4.15pm and there was still sufficient light for a parked car to be clearly visible, I know this because I was on scene within a minute of the collision and called for the ambulance.
When was the last time that you parked up on a road and put your hazard lights on when it wasn't an emergency?
I have heard that the council do not deem it necessary to place speed cameras on a stretch of road until there have been 4 fatalities. I just hope, Ram Inn, that someone you know is not one of those 4 before anything is done about it.”
by mr pearson, moorgreen
Tuesday, December 01 2009, 11:45AM
“yes , ran inn, we have a right to park outside our houses, my house has been here for 200 years long before the drivers who cannot drive properly started coming down this road.
how would you like yellow lines outside your house to stop vistors parking? your comments are shallow without taking into account the residents who live here.”
by ram inn, ng16
Monday, November 30 2009, 12:07PM
“Yes and we also need double yellow lines on that part of the road to stop people parking on a major road out of Nottingham.
4.50p.m it would be dark did she have her hazard warning lights on ??. The entrance to rueben shaws is totally in the wrong position,combine that with the doddery old drivers (who have never had an accident in their lives but have caused quite a few !! ) and you have a recipe for accidents.”