A woman was taken to hospital with life changing injuries following a crash between a motorbike and a car yesterday.

Witnesses described hearing a “sickening crunch” as a Triumph motorcycle, believed to be ridden by a man and his wife, collided with a car at about 3.30pm in Hampton Hill, at the junction between High Street and Cricket Lane.

Ambulances and police were called to the scene to treat the female passenger, thought to be in her 40s, who had serious leg injuries.

Vanessa Cash, 51, manager of the Geranium charity shop for the blind, opposite the site of the accident, said: “It was a horrendous noise. The woman was screaming for an hour-and-a-half.

“She wasn't moving at all and I covered her in a curtain that we had to throw away afterwards.”

Robert Cooper, 56, managing director of Coopers estate agents, in High Street, said the corner where the crash took place had been an "accident waiting to happen".

He said: “The car driver was being really careful, edging out slowly, but then there was this sickening crunch.

“It's almost impossible to turn right on that corner. I've been here for 30 years and every time you try to turn in from Cricket Lane to the High Street it's really difficult because there is poor visibility.

"We brought the poor driver in for some tea after all the shouting - he was still shaking."

Mrs Cash also described the corner as a blind spot for motorists.

A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said the woman had been taken to West Middlesex Hospital as a priority after being immobilised on a stretcher at the scene and given pain relief.

Police confirmed the road had been closed until 4.45pm and that an accident investigation was being carried out.