THIS was the scene in York today after a car crashed through railings near the Clifton bingo hall.

Residents in flats beside the accident site are now calling on City of York Council to look again at parking outside their homes, after a Vauxhall Corsa apparently mounted the kerb, crossed a wide pavement and crashed.

The driver, a woman in her fifties, is believed to be unhurt following the incident on Clifton at 3.20pm.

Afterwards residents revealed they had long pressed the council over difficulties with the parking slots where the car is believed to have been stationary immediately before it mounted the pavement, which is often busy with families and others going back and forth between their homes, Clifton Green shops and businesses and the city centre.

“She has been incredibly lucky no-one was hurt,” said Adam Wash, director of Clifton Garth Management Ltd, a property management company that looks after the four flats behind the railings including the one where he lives.

“I think this case is enough evidence to suppgest there is doubt here around residents’ parking. I don’t expect to arrive home to see a car through my railings.”

The cobbled parking area by the side of Clifton is used by cars parking perpendicular to the road, and in some cases, they hang out into the carriageway.

The Corsa was perpendicular to the road when it went through the railings. It had a disabled badge displayed in its windscreen.

Mr Wash said the parking area was used by people working in the city centre, who parked their car there in the morning and returned in the evening.

It is also used by people attending bingo sessions during the day and in the evening. This made it difficult for residents to park their cars.

They had applied for permits to use a different parking area on the other side of the road, but been told by the council they couldn’t have permits.

A second cobbled parking area by the shops at Clifton Green is used by cars parking parallel to the road and Mr Wash said that should be considered for the area by the Bingo Hall.

City of York Council declined to comment until the police accident report was available.