A MAN has been cut free from their car following a serious accident in Reading which has brought traffic to a standstill.
The smash happened when a red Toyota went into the back of a VW Passat in London Road, at the junction with Sidmouth Street directly opposite Reading University London Road campus, at just after 2.30pm. Fire crews from Caversham Road and Wokingham Road fire stations rushed to the scene along with two ambulances and a medical rapid response unit. The crews cut the man, described as in his 40s and suffering from neck injuries and a potential broken femur, free from the car. He was then taken by ambulance to hospital as was another person involved in the collision.
Eyewitness Melanie Marshall described how traffic on the IDR, Chatham Street and the Oxford Road has ground to a standstill following the collision, with police shutting two lanes of the London Road. She said it took her half an hour to get from outside the Royal Berkshire Hospital to Chatham Street.
She said: "There's traffic everywhere and we're all just parked. It's all at a standstill everywhere you go.
"There were people there in grey jumpsuits and they were taking apart a gold saloon in the middle of the road - they smashed the windows and took the roof right off. They were really going to town on it.
"It's chaos out there."
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