Motorists trapped in cars after crash

10:41am Friday 8th February 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Adam Binnie, Senior Reporter

Fire crews from Watford are cutting two drivers from their cars after they crashed this morning.

The incident took place at 8.50am in Judge Street, and both drivers are currently trapped in their cars after the crash.

More to follow.

Comments(12)

TRT says...
11:06am Fri 8 Feb 13

Let's hope the emergency services can get in there. Those roads are some of the most over-parked in the borough.

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Boosey says...
11:22am Fri 8 Feb 13

TRT wrote:
Let's hope the emergency services can get in there. Those roads are some of the most over-parked in the borough.
Which brings to mind, how did they get themselves in such a stuation? Maybe a race to see who could get to the gap first?
Sorry but this sort of incident shouldn't be happening on this street!

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Andrew Turpie says...
11:30am Fri 8 Feb 13

twenty's plenty (grabs coat and runs..)

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Mohandas says...
11:33am Fri 8 Feb 13

TRT wrote:
Let's hope the emergency services can get in there. Those roads are some of the most over-parked in the borough.
In the terraced streets there is alot of parking but this seems to act as deterrent to the speed merchants. Sometimes when you clear a street of parked vehicles you create rat runs and speeds increase. Think of some of the roads in Watford where they have effectively 'stopped' parking, speeds can exceed 60mph.

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TRT says...
11:33am Fri 8 Feb 13

Well, yes. This is a "20's plenty" street. We'll have to wait for further reports before we know if speed played a part in this, though having to cut people out of their cars kind of indicates that it might be!

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TRT says...
12:40pm Fri 8 Feb 13

Mohandas wrote:
TRT wrote:
Let's hope the emergency services can get in there. Those roads are some of the most over-parked in the borough.
In the terraced streets there is alot of parking but this seems to act as deterrent to the speed merchants. Sometimes when you clear a street of parked vehicles you create rat runs and speeds increase. Think of some of the roads in Watford where they have effectively 'stopped' parking, speeds can exceed 60mph.
That problem (speeding) is down to reckless and irresponsible drivers and will always be there. it is more likely to be enforced, and they are more likely to be removed from the road by being caught elsewhere and building enough points to lose their license.
The parking is in itself laid out sensibly for the most part, but infringements are not being enforced. So where there are corners marked with double yellow to allow bin lorries, fire engines, buses, Tesco lorries etc the space they need to turn whilst having safe and clear lines of sight, these areas are parked on without penalty and problems arise as a result.

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freebird23 says...
12:54pm Fri 8 Feb 13

I live in one of the roads that are off st albans road and we are always subjected to the sounds of motorbikes and cars as they pass through our road upto st albans road at alarming speeds of around 50-60 mph. We have cars parked on both sides of our road and it is a very built up area as many of the roads around here are. In November 2011 two highways employee's came to our road and put the speed monitor cables across the road and left them there for 6 weeeks, i spoke to the men in question and told them of the idiotic driving that occurs on our road and they said that if that was the case they would add that to thier report for HQ and hopefully some calming measures would be put in place. February 2013 still waiting. never mind someone will be killed and then the jobsworths might do something.

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TRT says...
1:03pm Fri 8 Feb 13

I'm actually against physical traffic calming measures. Having lived in these kinds of narrow roads and suffered from selfish speed freaks of the kind freebird23 describes, it's no fun. But when the humps go in... you better not have a back or stomach injury, your kids best not be the kind that scream when they get woken up by shaking or you'll be trying to find a parking space with 105dB of kid scream in your ear, you best ban skip lorries from using the road or other HGVs with loose loads, you best hope the lights don't go out or someone's going to take a bump that should be taken at 10mph at 30mph and lose their steering linkage, smashing into your car... I'm all in favour of cameras rather than "vertical deflection features" for these reasons.

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Mohandas says...
1:54pm Fri 8 Feb 13

TRT wrote:
Mohandas wrote:
TRT wrote:
Let's hope the emergency services can get in there. Those roads are some of the most over-parked in the borough.
In the terraced streets there is alot of parking but this seems to act as deterrent to the speed merchants. Sometimes when you clear a street of parked vehicles you create rat runs and speeds increase. Think of some of the roads in Watford where they have effectively 'stopped' parking, speeds can exceed 60mph.
That problem (speeding) is down to reckless and irresponsible drivers and will always be there. it is more likely to be enforced, and they are more likely to be removed from the road by being caught elsewhere and building enough points to lose their license.
The parking is in itself laid out sensibly for the most part, but infringements are not being enforced. So where there are corners marked with double yellow to allow bin lorries, fire engines, buses, Tesco lorries etc the space they need to turn whilst having safe and clear lines of sight, these areas are parked on without penalty and problems arise as a result.
Well arued TRT. Like you I'm against humps and bumps for the reasons you mentioned. It can't still be too expensive to install cameras (with sound would be great) in residential streets given that this technolgy seems to be falling in price to spot these nutters. Some of them apart from speeding have noisy exhausts and ghetto blasters.

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sooper says...
6:49pm Fri 8 Feb 13

Isnt this a one way street ?? so how can 2 cars crash and both need to be cut free ??? did one go the wrong way up a one way street ?

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TRT says...
7:53pm Fri 8 Feb 13

Running into someone pulling out I guess.

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gangerman says...
11:31am Sun 10 Feb 13

Another insurance scam.

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