Two crashes in one day along notorious major road sparks call for action

Both crashes were reported along Blackburn Road in Astley Bridge on Sunday October 5 with police officers called to the scene.

Cllr Hilary Fairclough, of Astley Bridge, said that having seen two crashes on a single evening she now hopes to find a solution.

She said: “The first one, there were three or four cars involved, and they weren’t just little bumps either.

A badly damaged car at the scene(Image: Newsquest)

She added: “So I’ve emailed highways and the police to see if we can have a meeting to look at what the issues are and see what we can do about it.”

The first crash was reported near Hill Cot Road and is understood to have involved up to four cars.

The second crash is reported to have happened later on the same day further on down Blackburn Road closer to the town centre near the Bay Mare pub.

The cause of the crashes is not known, but are the latest to have happened in the area.

Police were called out to Blackburn Road(Image: Newsquest)

A car is believed to have gone into a house because of the second crash.

No serious injuries or arrests have been reported because of either incident.

Blackburn Road had previously been the scene of a serious crash just months ago when emergency services were called to the junction with Crompton Way.

Eyewitnesses at the time reported what they say appeared to be a two-car crash, which in turn came after several other incidents were reported at the junction in recent times.

All this comes nearly a year after Blackburn Road was flagged by Greater Manchester Police as one of several causes of concern across the city region.

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The roads were drawn up after police received thousands of submissions from members of the public, include footage some of them had captured on dashcam footage of dangerous drivers.

This was part of what police dubbed “Operation Snap” which involved opening a dashcam footage portal to members of the public.

Operation Snap was relaunched as part of the force’s “Vision Zero” strategy that is aimed at eliminating all deaths and life changing injuries on Greater Manchester’s roads by 2040.

Cllr Fairclough says she hopes the meeting to look at issues on Blackburn Road will be arranged soon.

Source – INDIA TV