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Car crash causes big delays on road
KETTERING. RTA A recovery vehicle removes a wrecked car from Rothwell Road, Kettering, after an earlier accident shut the road for most of the afternoon.
Bus services were diverted, businesses were affected and a funeral briefly delayed when a main road in and out of Kettering was closed yesterday afternoon.
Police closed Rothwell Road between Kettering Crematorium and the A14 roundabout after a BMW collided with a Skoda outside the Evening Telegraph office at 1.15pm.
A third car was also involved.
Paramedics treated the driver of the Skoda for neck injuries and the BMW passenger for a cut to the head.
A fire crew also attended because of a petrol leak.
The road was finally opened at about 4.30pm.
The Evening Telegraph understands police were delayed opening the road because recovery vehicles had to be called from Milton Keynes.
The closure affected bus routes and caused a brief delay to the funeral of Charlotte Filer at the crematorium.
The nearby Telford Lodge pub was also affected.
Manager Tara Humphries said: “It hit us quite badly. Since about 1pm, people had been coming in to us in dribs and drabs.”
There was also a two-vehicle collision which caused more delays at Junction 7 of the A14 at about 3.40pm.
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mellboy
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 08:49 AMMost likely KRS have a contract with another county police force ! That would be typical .
robonuk
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:22 PMThe recovery comes from Milton Keynes as Northamptonshire & a lot of Police Forces have a contract with CMG, hence why they are used rather than KRS. The nearest base for CMG is in Milton Keynes
Mark Dragilocevic
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 05:59 PM"Recovery vehicles had to be called from Milton Keynes" - an explanation from the police would be in order to explain this farce. Surely a Kettering-based recovery firm could have done the job much more quickly. No wonder traffic was backed up so much when the police were dithering to clear a major junction.
il Capitano
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 03:27 PMrecovery vehicle from milton keynes?! only in this country does it take hours to shift vehicles in fairly minor crashes. i saw several incidents while i was in the U.S, where stricken cars were just pushed, rolled or flipped out of the way and coned off while traffic flows past them. here we have to shut entire roads.
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