TWO PEOPLE have been injured in the latest in a long line of serious accidents on a busy road which runs through Staincross and Mapplewell.

Police said Greenside was closed on Friday evening for more than an hour after a car crashed into a parked car.

There were some reports that the car had ended up on its roof and the junction with Bar Lane and Wakefield Road was cordoned off as the police, fire and ambulance services dealt with the incident.

John Race, who lives nearby on Staincross Common, has spent years campaigning for safety measures on Greenside.

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