SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT JUNCTION OF AIREDALE AVENUE AND CHISWICK HIGH ROAD

At 09:10 Thursday a motorcyclist suffered serious injuries at the junction of Airedale Avenue and Chiswick High Road in the 24 hour bus lane.

An eyewitness reported that a motorcycle appeared to be riding up the bus lane when a female driver pulled across the road to enter Airedale Avenue. The bike struck the car's bonnet and was catapulted over it, with the rider suffering multiple fractures of the leg and serious shock.

Witnesses say there have been other accidents and many near misses caused both by abuse of the new bus lane and by smaller public service vehicles - including taxis - travelling up the inside of stationary traffic, where many drivers are emerging from or entering residential streets.

One local business person commented, "The system simply does not work and is going to prove fatal, soon."

October 17, 2002

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