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.