Two Injured After Separate Road Collisions in Pitshanger

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Congestion and gridlock as emergency services dealt with incidents

(Picture: Shirley Kakaiya)

Traffic was gridlocked around Pitshanger and North Ealing last night following two separate road accidents.

In the first witnesses say a school boy was knocked down on the Argyle Road as he ran from one bus stop to another.

Police say: ''Police were called at 17:07hrs on Wednesday, 18 October to reports of a pedestrian in collision with a car on Argyle Road, W13. Officers and London ambulance service attended the scene. A boy was taken to a West London hospital with a leg injury where he remains. His injuries were later confirmed as non life threatening or changing.''

Later that night there was another collision involving a truck and a car. It happened around 7.15pm near the junction with Ruislip Road East.

Police say a man in his thirties was injured.

19th October 2017