Crash drivers are ‘walking wounded’

MOTORISTS had a lucky escape after two cars collided near an accident blackspot.

A silver Mondeo and blue Fiesta were left badly smashed after the crash in Lees Road, at the junction of Clarksfield Street, Clarksfield, at 6.20 this morning.

Police said the drivers were not badly injured and described them as “walking wounded.”

The road was temporarily blocked as highways officers were called to clear away the debris.

The road has already been the scene of several recent accidents and the crash happened near to the scene of a fatal collision. Chris Dale (15), a talented Blue Coat School pupil, died when he was in collision with a Mini Cooper as he crossed Lees Road in June.

In 2003, 16-year-old school friends Christian Leyden, of Springhead, and Anthony Hughes, of Greenfield, were killed when a speeding car failed to stop at the Wellyhole Road junction and struck the car Anthony’s mother was driving.

And last month a black VW car shot out of Wellyhole Street, leaving skid marks, before hitting the kerb in Lees Road, and plunging into bushes. Two men were trapped inside but both managed to escape and ran off.

It prompted Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Phil Woolas to write to Oldham Council calling for improved safety measures.

He wants something implemented to warn drivers of the junction when driving down Wellyhole Street.