Two cars crash in controversial lane

12:20pm Monday 19th May 2008

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A woman has been taken to hospital after two cars collided in a Mill Hill lane beset by controversy.

The woman, who is 40, was taken to Barnet Hospital, in Wellhouse Lane, Barnet, with injuries that are not thought to be serious after a car crash on a blind bend in Partingdale Lane.

The road was closed shortly after the accident at around 8am this morning and has not yet been reopened.

The accident took place outside the home of mother of two Anne Rowe-Parr, 46, who said: "It's very dangerous, people go far too fast and it's a complete cut-through. It was an accident waiting to happen.

"The lane is very winding and people don't realise quite how blind the bends are.

"There's a pavement on one side and it's quite scary to walk on it because it's not that wide and people do go very, very fast."

Partingdale Lane was used as a shortcut between Woodside Park and Mill Hill before it was closed at one end, four years ago, because it was narrow, had blind bends and no pavements.

It was reopened to through-traffic last October following more than £250,000-worth of safety improvements.