Oops, sorry!

Walking home through Saltaire on Bank Holiday Monday teatime, I happened upon this collision at the junction of Victoria Road with Saltaire Road, the main road to Leeds, just beside the Salts Hospital building. Not the first to happen here by a long, long way... and it won't be the last I'm sure. It looked fairly minor but there was an ambulance parked and somebody apparently being treated inside - even in a crash like this you can suffer nasty whiplash and shock.

Traffic is one of Saltaire's biggest problems. There are plans afoot to try to improve congestion at the junction of the two main roads at Saltaire roundabout, but I'm concerned that the measures there (traffic lights and blocking access to some roads) will only serve to make the minor roads through the village busier and more dangerous. There really ought to be traffic lights at this junction. It's a nightmare trying to pull out of the top of Victoria Road, waiting for a gap in the traffic. Vehicles on Saltaire road often drive far too fast (at least, when they aren't stuck in a traffic jam there!) So people do take risks, as possibly the driver of the cream car was trying to do. I'm sure that wasn't the way anyone wanted their day out to end....