Accident slows traffic in town centre

5:32pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 in News

The accident on Bridge Foot The accident on Bridge Foot

A COLLISION between two cars caused traffic problems in Warrington town centre this afternoon, Wednesday.

Police say it happened just after 4pm at Bridge Foot near to Bridge Street.

Nobody was injured and no arrests were made following the collision between the BMW coupe and the Citroen C5.

It happened close to the recently changed lane markings on Bridge Foot.

Comments(17)

old-codger says...
6:12pm Wed 17 Oct 12

It happened close to the recently changed lane markings on Bridge Foot.

Not exactly in town centre then is it..

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live_wire says...
7:17pm Wed 17 Oct 12

old-codger wrote:
It happened close to the recently changed lane markings on Bridge Foot. Not exactly in town centre then is it..
.....it didnt state the crash was in the town centre, just that it caused traffic problems there

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JoeyLad says...
8:08pm Wed 17 Oct 12

old-codger wrote:
It happened close to the recently changed lane markings on Bridge Foot.

Not exactly in town centre then is it..
You pedantic idiot!

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old-codger says...
8:21pm Wed 17 Oct 12

live_wire says...
7:17pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Not exactly e crash was in the town centre, just that it caused traffic problems there.

There is no traffic in the town centre, So no problem..,

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old-codger says...
8:24pm Wed 17 Oct 12

5:32pm Wednesday 17th October 2012

A COLLISION between two cars caused traffic problems in Warrington town centre this afternoon, Wednesday...........
OK.

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live_wire says...
8:36pm Wed 17 Oct 12

old-codger wrote:
5:32pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 A COLLISION between two cars caused traffic problems in Warrington town centre this afternoon, Wednesday........... OK.
.....and your point is? mr CAPS LOCK? an accident at warrington hospital could cause traffic problems in the town centre, doesnt mean the accident happened there.

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MikeJT says...
8:48pm Wed 17 Oct 12

If you really want to argue about it, if its on the northern side of the mersey then it counts as towncentre. Town centre is marked by Bridgefoot, Wilson Pattern Street, Parker Street, Crosfield Street, Froghall Lane, Lythgoes lane, Fennel Street then back down Mersey street.

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mrbaxter says...
9:02pm Wed 17 Oct 12

live_wire wrote:
old-codger wrote:
It happened close to the recently changed lane markings on Bridge Foot. Not exactly in town centre then is it..
.....it didnt state the crash was in the town centre, just that it caused traffic problems there
Dont think old codger said it was in the town center,he said "bridge foot is not exactly in the town center"
As for Joeylads remarks,you been on the nasty pills.No need for comments like that.

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SickAndTired2 says...
8:05am Thu 18 Oct 12

What an absolutely pointless argument...

How about the fact that this happened right where these idiotic lane marking changes have taken place??? This system is STILL flawed and is causing traffic which wants to go in any other direction than the A49 North or Knutsford Road to tail back all the way to Bank Quay...

We need a revolution to get these incompetent ****wits out of power before they destroy this town.

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nextdoor says...
8:18am Thu 18 Oct 12

BMW and a taxi driver, couldn't make that up.

A BMW also went into the back of a bus just before the Bevan island on the A49 around 4pm yesterday.

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beccamc says...
10:56am Thu 18 Oct 12

Warrington is **** altogether for traffic problems but changing the marking on bridgefoot was a stupid idea and there was bound to be an accident i am surprised it took so long to be honest.

and last night there was another accident around the same area at around 7ish last night

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grey_man says...
11:39am Thu 18 Oct 12

The fortunate thing is that nobody was hurt, given what is shown in that picture. Thank God there wasn't a pedestrian there.

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deadbeat says...
1:38pm Thu 18 Oct 12

You also can't legislate for the idiot drivers that still ignore the road signs and get in the third lane and cut across everyone anyway, somethign which everyone conveniently ignores happened BEFORE the lanes were changed. The original markings were a ridiculously bad idea, the new ones just need some getting used to. If anything, the left lane leading to the junction should stay as left only and the right should split into two just before the junction.

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beccamc says...
3:56pm Thu 18 Oct 12

the road signs have not been changed they are still the same as the old road and a waste of tax payers money

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old-codger says...
7:43pm Thu 18 Oct 12

mrbaxter You are spot on, I said bridge foot, joeylad is always the same, Thats why i ignored his comment.

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Rob Gandy says...
7:02am Fri 19 Oct 12

beccamc wrote:
the road signs have not been changed they are still the same as the old road and a waste of tax payers money
I wish they were the same - If you remember previously all 3 lanes went to the south and retail park - lane 1 = Mersey st, Retail park,Knutsford Road, lane 2 splitting to 3 was Wilderspool Causeway and Chester Rd.
Now after our glorious councils optimisation/congest
ion design we have Mersey st only = lane 1 - most light changes there are never more than 2 cars utilising this, Lane 2 now splits from lane 1 at the lights for Business park and Knutsford Road - great for me - but a bit of a joke really. Lane 3 forms a single lane from well before Mr Smiths for the Causeway and Chester Road = massive queues down Wilson Patten st for everyone. Its not hard to understand the maths of the above unless you are Councillor apparently - even my 11 year old daughter has commented that the present design is way more restrictive than the original that just needed repainting.

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defor_dog says...
8:27pm Fri 19 Oct 12

The new layout is just as bad. If you enter Bridge Foot from Knutsford road/Causeway/Cheste
r Road and want to go to the Retail PArk - have you noticed how tight you have to now turn to get in the correct lane at the lights where Bar Zero is? Some fool in a van almost took my back bumper out last week, then gave me some abusive hand signals and proceeded to tailgate me all the way down Knutsford Road.

Needless to say, his actions were caught on my onboard camera and have been sent to the Police :)

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