Driver cut from car after crash in city

A DRIVER had to be cut out of his car after a crash on a busy main road in Cardiff.

The incident, which involved just one car, happened on the A48 just before noon on Thursday and caused long tailbacks.

Two crews from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service attended and freed the male driver, who was then taken to the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff, by ambulance.

South Wales Police confirmed there was nobody else involved and said the driver did not suffer any serious injuries.

A spokesman for South Wales Fire and Rescue said: “We responded with three hazardous area response vehicles and an emergency ambulance, where one person was taken to hospital.”

EMERGENCY meetings have been taking place after work on a large new development on the outskirts of Cardiff caused traffic chaos for commuters.

Work is being carried out to widen Llantristant Road to create new bus and cycle lanes, to create a new fourway junction for Heol Isaf, and put in drainage infrastructure off the carriageway for the new £2.5bn Plasdwr development, which has been described as a 7,000-home “garden city”.

But motorists and local residents facing daily gridlocked traffic in and out of Radyr have been demanding something is done to stop the chaos that has seen 10-minute journeys take up an hour during peak times.

They say children are getting to school late, appointments are being missed and carers are not able to get to residents because of the delays.

There have been queues in the morning and evening since work began in July, but it has been particularly bad in the past two weeks.

In response to growing anger, the developers have said they have brought in changes to the traffic management system and brought on more workers to get the work done quicker.

The developers say that work on the drainage system has meant a 24-hour lights system has had to be put in place to make it safe.

But they have admitted it was causing access issues and have now installed manually operated threeway lights at peak times.

A spokeswoman said: “Previously we had automatic three-way lights in place, and removed them in response to complaints.

“Since Thursday we have manually operated three-way lights at peak times: this worked well on Friday morning and we will keep monitoring the traffic flow.”

The changes were brought in after a number of complaints from residents and intervention from Cardiff council.

Resident Tom Evans said the traffic