Grandmother's terrifying A120 blackspot crash (From Essex County Standard)
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Grandmother's terrifying A120 blackspot crash
8:00pm Thursday 26th April 2012 in News
Eve Oliver
A GRANDMOTHER spent three weeks in hospital after a “terrifying” accident at an A120 blackspot.
Eve Oliver, 63, needed a metal pin inserted into her hip and suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung in the crash at the Great Bromley junction on March 30.
Her 55-year-old passenger had a fractured wrist.
Mrs Oliver was in the newly-expanded central reservation, waiting to join the Harwich-bound carriageway, when her Kia Rio was in a collision with a Renault Scenic.
The Great Bromley resident said: “It was terrifying.
“I have used that junction for 37 years and now there are all these people flying at you from all different angles “I do think the Highways Agency has made it worse.”
Campaigners have called on roads minister Mike Penning to look again the junction, which last month underwent a £200,000 redesign.
The accident involving Mrs Oliver, of Harwich Road, happened just days before the work was due to be completed.
Since her crash there have been two further incidents. The retired care worker is now back home.
The Renault driver suffered whiplash, and the air ambulance was called after a seven-year-old suffered breathing difficulties.
Comments(4)
CC1234
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10:26am Fri 27 Apr 12
Scoot
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12:37pm Fri 27 Apr 12
Yendor says
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8:32pm Fri 27 Apr 12
CC1234 wrote:Yes, all traffic accidents are caused by human error of one form or another. However, where a particular junction is renowned for accidents surely one has to call into question whether the road layout is the major contributor to these accidents and the mistakes that are made. I think with this particular junction the answer is clearly yes.
I have become increasingly annoyed with the A120 Little Bentley Junction Farce. The recent changes have made this road more dangerous. It was fine as it was, as long as people used common sense and followed the highway code. All of these incidents have been caused by 'human error', not the road. If drivers made more effort to look at what's going on around them and concentrate on driving, less incidents would occur. An Emergency Services Driver.
Accidents happened before the changes and continue to happen now. They have not solved the traffic problem.
CO6 resident says...
9:31am Fri 27 Apr 12
Best to take more care when negotiating the junction.