A teenage boy who was struck by a bus on a busy Bradford road was being treated in hospital last night.

The 16-year-old, who was in collision with a single-deck bus in Manchester Road, suffered facial and upper body injuries, and was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary for tests and treatment, a spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said.

The bus lane was closed while police carried out investigations after the collision, which happened at 1.45pm yesterday.

Councillor Sher Khan (Lab, Little Horton), a former bus driver, said he knows the family of the boy involved in the accident.

He described the teenager as a “young, bright lad” who enjoys playing football.

“I am very close to them,” he said.

“Hopefully he is OK, I have talked to his father who is in hospital with him.

“The bus lane is supposed to be very safe and sound, there is a pelican crossing there.

“But this is the second serious accident that has happened here, I don’t know how it happened.

“I am very concerned about the family and we need to investigate how it happened.”

Shopkeepers in the area have expressed concern about the safety of the bus-only lane.

Malik Waheed, owner of the Lazy Beds furniture shop, said: “There are many accidents here, it is quite dangerous, every year there are maybe two or three accidents.

“Buses come down and people don’t realise the bus is going to come, they’ll go across to the middle section and they’ll think they can just go across.

“It’s very dangerous this place, something must be done about it.”

Another shopkeeper, who did not want to be named, said: “People don’t look sometimes when they cross the road. Accidents have happened here a lot.

“When they cross sometimes I think they don’t look, it is quite a confusing bus lane.

“It’s hard for bus drivers as well, when people don’t look. It’s dangerous.

“Everything happened so quickly, police came, and the fire engines and so many people.”

A man who works in another Manchester Road shop said: “We have seen quite a few accidents on here.

“You go across the lights that are on green for you going across the cars, the trouble is often the bus lane is set to “go” and you can go straight over –it looks like you’re on a central reservation so you think you’re safe.

“I think it’s awful.

“We are concerned because there has been a number of accidents.”

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