Helicopter takes victim to hospital after another A49 crash (From Warrington Guardian)

Helicopter takes victim to hospital after another A49 crash

A SERIOUS crash on Sunday left a pensioner with suspected spinal injuries on the A49 - 50 yards from where Robert Lewis died in December.

An air ambulance carried the 70-year-old patient to the Countess of Chester Hospital after she was in collision with a motorcycle just before 4pm.

She had been to Bartington Methodist Chapel - and Mr Lewis' widow, Kathleen, who worships at the chapel, heard about the accident from the minister.

"It sent shivers down my spine because we are very worried about people coming out of the church," said Mrs Lewis, whose 71-year-old husband died in a collision with a HGV at the same stretch of road.

"It's a very, very bad stretch of road and we have been asking for a number of years to get the road redesigned or to get a speed limit."n

The inquest into her husband's death had been held on Thursday, only three days before this accident.

Mrs Lewis said parishioners now intend to start a full campaign for more safety measures.

She added: "There are very often slight bumps on that road where people have been injured.

"The local residents are upset but we are hoping to get people together at Church to do something."

The Holly Bush Pub has offered to let people use a room for a public meeting about safety on the road.

Mrs Lewis, from Nook Farm in Marsh Lane, Whitley, is still recovering from the fatal collision - the rib she broke is still painful enough to wake her up in the night.

"I think about it whenever I drive down the road," she said.

"I am a pretty tough sort of a person, but even so I am nervous when I see wagons coming up."